Did not check the land pattern of the part I was using and used a footprint that clearly did not fit! Squeezing the pins together and a ton of flux later I am still surprised I managed to get the fella soldered on.
After some hardware fixes as usual, some glorious resoldering and a few lines of 1's and 0's later...I have data! With my DAC working, both receive antennas are working and able to read the I/Q outputs!
Very pleased and now to turn this into something more understandable!
Bought a 24GHz radar module to tinker with and, after a few tests and experiments, ended up designing this board to make further testing a bit easier with the eventual aim of designing my own radar system or close!
Has been a really enjoyable learning experience so far. Time to start writing some 1’s and 0’s now!