[minima] Re: Build update on my Minima + Construction notes on my website
- From: Thomas Sarlandie <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "minima@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <minima@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:47:33 -0800
Those small square islands are MeSquares from QRPME:
http://www.qrpme.com/?p=product&id=MES
It's a lot of fun building with them: I just glue them to the board as I
go. There are cheaper ways to get them, for example making holes in a pcb
with a puncher but I had ordered one bag of mesquares and I have barely
used a quarter of them. Maybe even less. It's worth the time saved and it
allows me to look at the circuit upside down, like I am used too ;)
If you want more information on construction technique, I recommend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH110yjYZ2g
And this blog:
https://aa7ee.wordpress.com/tag/manhattan-construction/
This guy (AA7EE) is the real artist!
73!
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Sandeep Lohia <sandeeplohia12@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> U R an Artist among all us...
>
> write more about those small square Islands...
>
> On 03/03/2014, Dan Reynolds <on30ng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Excellent work Thomas. Very nice looking.
> > Did you have any particular issues with any of the modules? I mean
> anything
> > that was a show stopper for a bit? I'm not 'smart enough' to understand
> all
> > the discussion on the KISS mixer. Is your's working fine?
> > Which PA did you build?
> >
> >
> > 73
> > Dan -- KB9JLO
> > https://sites.google.com/site/on30ng/
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Joe Street <jstreet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Very Nice Thomas.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03/03/2014 2:32 AM, Thomas Sarlandie wrote:
> >>
> >> Guys,
> >>
> >> It's been a very productive week-end here and I had fun listening to
> the
> >> ARRL DX contest with the Minima! (I did take a few breaks to make some
> >> contacts - 10m was booming).
> >>
> >> I finished all the TX stages, the CW generator and boxed everything.
> >> Last but not least, I finally put my pictures and notes online:
> >>
> >> http://www.sarfata.org/ham/minima/
> >>
> >> It's a first draft, I have a lot more in my paper notebook and will
> >> update it so that each stage comes with all the references that I used
> >> and
> >> the problems I had. I hope it will help future builders.
> >>
> >> For this week-end, it starts here:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.sarfata.org/ham/minima/#playing_with_a_spectrum_analyzer_and_the_crystal_filter
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> thomas
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> http://www.lohiaelectronics.com/sandeep/mimima.htm
>
>
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