SA602/612 not dead after all ?
I saw a post by W5JAG on the diyaudio.com site that there is a company called Zeenko that may still make the SA602 calling it the ZeeTK NE602A:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/no-rf-gear-here.309531/page-48#post-8134732
https://www.zeenko.tech/mmics
ZeenKo makes gear like the TinySA:
https://www.zeenko.tech/tinysa
that requires the 8 pin mixers. So this is good news although these are SO parts (Surface Mount, 50 mil lead spacing) NOT DIP parts (which to be fair have been gone a long time). I don't know if these are actual new silicon or if they are possibly newly packaged old silicon ? I didn't see any on Ebay but did see this on Aliexpress:
source: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008766921262.html
I imagine that that price is puffed up by the tariff tax - if the Supremes strike the tariff tax down the price might decrease ? We'll see.
BTW I did join the diyaudio site, lots of activity and obviously it's not all just about audio. I'm still just started to explore and search the old posts but it looks like a useful site, our fellow travelers, the build it yourself audio guys.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
