[hpsdr] Proto or not proto?

[Bill Tracey]

To some extent you can use existing Euro card prototyping boards.  A little 
work with a Dremel on a Velleman ECL board is ( 
http://www.designnotes.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=ECL&Category_Code=prb 
) is how I did my Xylo shim for Janus.  Unfortunately none of the Velleman 
boards are really setup for 96 bin connectors so you end up doing a fair 
amount of trace cutting and blue wiring to get the connectors to work.

Interesting proto board I've seen of late is from http://www.busboard.net 
is the SMTBoard 3U Thin  -- this one is nice in that it has a continuous 
ground plane and a pattern that looks like it would be good for surface 
mount prototyping.   I think Mouser carnies these board for about $10 or so.

One of these days I'll come around to design first, solder second  -- but 
at the moment I like sitting down on the bench and building a circuit on 
the fly and seeing how it does.

How many folks are interested in prototyping something to go on an Atlas 
bus?  What are people thinking of prototyping?   Thru hole or surface mount?

Cheers.

Bill (kd5tfd)



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