For me the nervous part was injecting enough signal into the RX port to
activate the new feature!  Not every day you dump a full watt into the
rig.  

~Brett

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 01:35 -0400, James Sarte wrote:
> Thanks to all who gave me suggestions on soldering.
> 
> Was able to perform the Extreme Signal RX mod without a hitch tonight.
> Tested the radio, and all is well.  Only nervous part was soldering the
> hookup wire to R56.  I was afraid I'd loosen it.  I kept my iron at 364*C
> though and made sure contact was quick with R56; just long enough to tack
> the wire in place.
> 
> Now just waiting for the noisy VFO kit to arrive so I can solder those
> resistor/diode pairs into the RF board.  BTW, none of the vias on my board
> had solder in them which made life pretty easy.
> 

______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html

Reply via email to