Discrepancies<\/b> <\/p>\n
The eBay board had only 2 resistors, one 10k and the other 2.2k. But I had four resistors, all 10k. I don’t know why mine didn’t have a 2.2k, but having four 10k resistors all the same made the choice very simple.<\/p>\n
Antenna<\/b><\/p>\n
I had to figure out what the four pins and jumper do. But the above website<\/a> helped a lot. The four pins are labeled ASW, which I’m guessing means antenna switch. One way makes the earphone cord the antenna, the other is a separate wire. <\/p>\n Performance <\/b><\/p>\n It comes with a two AA cell battery holder, so I soldered it to the PW holes on the left. I put cells in the holder, plugged in some earbuds, pushed a few pushbuttons and received a station. I moved the jumper to the left and the station got louder, so I guess that was the one for the headphone cord antenna. It works okay even though I wasn’t sure if I had put all the parts in their proper places. Yay! Now I can assemble some others.<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/b><\/p>\n I agree with the conclusion in the goughlui website. This receiver has a loud pop when turned on, and the volume has too much change between steps. If you plug this into a powerful stereo system, it could damage speakers or even more.<\/p>\n When the seek buttons are pressed, the seek is muted, but since there is no display, the next station is unknown until the station verbally identfies itself. A display would help a lot, but it’d be more expensive.<\/p>\n The instructions are nonexistent, but through my previous experience I was able to get through with no problems. Because of this, and the soldering of the tiny SMD chip, I don’t recommend this for beginners, and hopefully the goughlui.com website and my blog will help future experienced assemblers get through this project without problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I ordered these kits Several weeks ago and they finally arrived today. I opened up the package and found several parts rattling around loose in the box. I found one bag had been cut open, and whoever slit it didn’t tape or staple it closed. I got to work and assembled one of the kits <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,310,262],"tags":[314,313,312],"class_list":["post-12155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembling-kit","category-fm-band","category-receiver","tag-ebay","tag-fm-receiver-kit","tag-hex3653"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12165,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170619_1822222.jpg\")
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