[hpsdr] Atlas board plated to ease soldering?

[Ray J]

mine was all copper/gold... no tin...

soldering went just fine with standard smallest sized radio shack solder.

did you clean the board with alcohol or anything first?

 I thought i was going to go nuts soldering all them pins....  lol  :-)


Ray J
W9RAY


Jerry Flanders wrote:
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> Or tinned?
>
> I am finally assembling my TAPR Atlas kit today. After having a bit 
> of trouble "wetting" several board connections with solder, I 
> realized I was soldering to the gold plating - there was no tinning 
> or other plating applied to enable easy wetting with the solder+flux.
>
> My first thoughts were this would be OK because gold is pretty easy 
> to solder to anyway, but then I noticed the instructions referred to 
> pre-tinned holes, and the photos I see on the web show a definite 
> "silvery" look - NOT gold. Maybe those were not production boards in 
> the photos.
>
> So I am wondering if all production Atlas boards are gold like mine, or what?
>
> I have only soldered the first 30 SMT caps so far, but since I have 
> hundreds more points to solder, I thought I would ask the Atlas experts.
>
> Oh - I have considerable experience soldering, though not much with 
> modern SMT stuff.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Jerry W4UK
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