[hpsdr] To kit or not to kit...............

[Henry Vredegoor]

Hello Horst,

I didn't say in my mail that it is not possible and I agree fully with you
that it should be encouraged to build your own hardware if possible.

My point is that it is a unique opportunity to maybe have complete board('s)
of professional production quality manufactured for maybe a very acceptable
price, because of the expected volume('s).

And don't forget that not all people are in this project for the making of
hardware.

73's

Henry.



-----Original Message-----
From: hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org] On Behalf Of
H. Gruchow
Sent: zaterdag 22 juli 2006 15:00
To: hpsdr at hpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] To kit or not to kit...............


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Hello everybody,
why are so many people so shy when it comes to SMT soldering????

I am 55 years old and started my first time experience in SMT soldering by
assembling some 
of Tonys Softrock kits where you have the direct comparison of conventional
and SMT 
soldering.
I personally find it very easy to mount SMT and so fast as well. No bending
of wires 
anymore, no cutting after soldering etc. etc.
The only new tools I had to buy where two specialized pairs of tweezers for
7 EUR each and 
a new pencil-size soldering tip for my old ERSA iron which I have since 20
years or more.

Just try.

I even have succeeded in soldering individual pins of a 0.5mm pitch test IC.
For trial I 
had bought an epoxy board with several smd footprints of various sizes for 9
EUR and have 
unsoldered some ICs of old PC stuff I had lying around by using a hot air
gun. I then 
reused them for solder testing. Worked fantastic and so I have lost any
respect on SMD 
soldering.
Soldering together the D44-interface which I had bought from Eric took me
exactly 7 
minutes of which I had to wait for 1 minute to warm up my soldering iron.

I have to admit that 0603 parts require a quick hand but still manageable.

Why I am writing this all?

I always hear and read in ham magazines 'oh, smt, stay away from it. I can't
do'. Yes, you 
can. I repeat once again:

Just try.

73
Horst
DL6KBF

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