[hpsdr] Hermes Build Documents....

[Dick Faust]

There is a a component placement guide from Terry Long N8AB on my web 
page [for some time] as well as hi res of  TAPR  built board, top side 
is  332x2290 and bottom is  2399x1459

http://www.k9ivb.net/hermes/

Dick K9IVB

Rob Frohne wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> Could someone take some good high resolution photos of both sides of 
> the present build of Hermes for all of us builders to use.  Abhi has a 
> 1024x768 view of the top side 
> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vgOrW9tLXZo/T_M1ca_mnWI/AAAAAAAAAGY/tC4mS4l2-d8/s1600/Hermes.jpg>, 
> but I'd like. something we can zoom in on nicely.
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> I am proceeding on to building the back side of my Hermes board 
> today.  I have Gerber files from Abhi, and have made an svg file from 
> the silkscreen layer and mirrored it.  It looks nice, but you can't 
> search it for a component, which would be really nice.  If anyone has 
> tips for that, please pipe up.  I am hoping some of you are ahead of 
> me on this, and have made some nice documentation of the build 
> process.  If not, what I have will be available, if someone directs me 
> to the repository.
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> We have made a stencil for the back side already, and if all goes 
> well, I'll let you know how it works by this afternoon.  The gerbers 
> have to be fairly extensively modified to make a stencil for the front 
> side, and I have a friend working on that for me now.  I plan to send 
> John Melton a couple of sets of stencils for Europe and if someone 
> here in the US wants to coordinate passing them around here, I'm happy 
> to make a few sets for North America.  I also plan to make the stencil 
> files available so builders can have their own made commercially.
>
> It would be nice to get a set of build instructions/videos up that 
> will make assembling the Hermes easier, maybe kind of like WB5RVZ did 
> <http://wb5rvz.com/sdr/> for the softrock or like the one we made 
> <http://people.wallawalla.edu/%7ERob.Frohne/UDays/SoftrockBuildNotes.html> 
> for how to use a toaster oven to solder a softrock and use a stencil 
> with solder paste here.   Videos like this one 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FHvikd3BkY&feature=youtu.be>are are 
> also helpful.
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> Tnx & 73,
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> Rob
> KL7NA
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