Will also post to FB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I ordered this air band radio kit from China a few weeks ago and \nreceived it a few days ago. Yesterday I spent most of the day assembling\n it. I\u2019m an experienced kit builder and believe me, it was difficult. \nThe kit came with a single sheet of paper, on one side was a discription\n and the other side was the schematic. The description was written in \nChinglish and was no help in assembling the kit. The PC board had a part\n number, like C27, but no value. So each part had to be looked up on the\n schematic to find out what the value was. But the schematic on the \npaper and online was blurry and the part numbers and values were nearly \nimpossible to read. This made the kit very difficult to assemble \ncorrectly and most inexperienced kit builders would find it too \ndifficult, with many mistakes being made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent more than 2 hours going to the schematic and puzzling out the\n part numbers, then puzzling out the proper values for the parts. This \nwas in addition to the time I spent finding each part, inserting it \nproperly, soldering it in and clipping off the leads. This kit was \neasier to do than my previous kit because there were no coils to wind. \nThe coils were a part of the printed circuit traces, spirals on the \nboard. No tuning to do, just solder the capacitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I finally finished with the assembly. I had to double check as I was \nassembling, tracing the leads between parts to see that they \ncorresponded to the parts on the schematic, so my checks after assembly \nwere more like the third time. I hooked it up to a short antenna, \nspeaker and the power supply and prepared for the sight and smell of \nsmoke. But I didn\u2019t get anything, other than a click on the speaker. \nVolume was up and the squelch was off, so I used a small screwdriver to \nturn the slug in the IF can. After adjusting the slug for the most hiss,\n I didn\u2019t have the volume control turned up, maybe a quarter turn. No \nmatter where I adjusted the tuning, I heard nothing but hiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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