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70 -- RADIO FREQUENCY (RF), FREQUENCY SHIFT-KEYING (FSK) MODEMS. Contact Point, Kevin Kartchner, 505/845-9175. Responses to this notice will be used to develop a source list for a Request for Quotations (RFQ) for the manufacture, burn-in, testing, troubleshooting, and alignment of frequency-agile, radio frequency (RF), frequency shift-keying (FSK) modems. The modem and an associated digital interface card will be used to transport digital data on a broadband databus. The modem will be packaged as a single-width, 10.5-inch-tall Versa Module Eurocard (VME) printed circuit card. The modems will use plus/minus 35 KHz frequency deviation and operate from 146 MHz to 256 MHz. The frequency-agile modems will use independent transmitting (TX) and receiving (RX) frequencies, and they will have modulation stages operating up to 800 MHz. The modems will be incorporated into systems capable of supporting 200 modems at 500-KHz frequency separations. The modems will be controlled by both local and central processors over a broadband Ethernet control channel. Interested vendors who have experience in RF board manufacturing, testing, troubleshooting, and alignment in the 30 MHz-to-1 GHz frequency range are invited to furnish a written response to this notice to Sandia National laboratories within fifteen (15) days. The written response should include a description of the vendor's capabilities related to the manufacture, testing, troubleshooting, and alignment of multi-layer RF circuit boards. Although the boards are not required to be manufactured to military specifications, preference may be given to suppliers who will produce the boards on the same lines used for mil-spec products. Those vendors who appear, in Sandia's sole judgment, to have the capability to meet this requirement will receive a copy of the Request for Quotations, which will include the full specification. (066)

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