On 8/28/23 11:23 AM, drfuka@... wrote:
Howdy,
Are there any US Manufacturers building/selling NanoVNAs? I am on a project that is regulated by The Build America Buy America Act and NDAA889 Laws which unfortunately make the linked purchase options not possible.
Related question: I would like to give someone who is BABAA/NDAA889 compliant a project to build a custom software-only version without the display, LY-K3-01B switch, battery, USBC, Charge circuit, ... basically just a software NanoVNA-H for a project I am working on. I am checking with SparkFun, but is there anyone in the friends and family of this amazing project that might be interested, and if so, about how much would it cost for US-made boards?
The Buy American Act probably falls in the exception:
"the items to be procured or the materials from which they are manufactured must be present in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities of a satisfactory quality. The provisions of the act may be waived if the head of the procuring agency determines the act to be inconsistent with the public interest or the cost of acquiring the domestic product is unreasonable. "
The items to be procured aren't present in the US. In my government funded job, we buy things from foreign mfrs all the time: Think Rhode+Schwarz test equipment, SpaceWire test equipment, or even more mundane, fancy RF cables.
Yes, you have to fill out a form saying why you can't get it from a domestic supplier.
NDAA889 is potentially more troubling, but I think it covers only "Telecommunications Equipment and Services" and the NanoVNA doesn't fall into that bucket.
