Hey all,. I would like to find out what the best price one could get for any kind of data radio capable of more than 10Kb/s , either FM or AM (prefferably FM of course), even if you had to assemble it yourself. the best price I have found so far is 15$ for AM tx/rx pair. (15$ total for both, 22.5$ or so for FM when I checked) and from
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I looked around and found I might be able to put together an FM pair for
13$ with some two chip designs but was looking for a single chip transceiver. I found a few, but the all seem to require too many discretes that make it more than the two separate modules if you have to buy the discretes at digi-key prices.
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has some decent ones, but they cost too much in sample quantities.