Excuse me while I boast a bit:
I built two DEMI transverter kits this past month and have two more
to do. The board is smd with about 100 or more components. I built
a 222-28 and 2304-144 transverter and waiting for a 902-144 and a
second 2304-144 kit to arrive. it takes me about 7-10 days to do a
kit (leisurely). Probably about 18-22 hours per kit without testing.
I'm 71 and still able to work on this stuff but did buy a new
magnifier lamp this summer (I wore out the previous one). Secrets to
doing smd work have been previously discussed so I will not bore
anyone by repeating.
If Elecraft started offering smd kits I would have lots more work
building kits for others! <smile>
But doing a kit for a K3 would be probably beyond my patience (and
failure rate). I think they have a lot of very small smd parts on
the board which get much more difficult (I like 0603 and larger).
Probably just as well the new radios are not kits - customer service
would need to be much much larger!
73, Ed - KL7UW
http://www.kl7uw.com
"Kits made by KL7UW"
Dubus Mag business:
[email protected]
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