>Judgeing by what I have been reading, I have been the only person that >has not been able to get one to work :-( [M.O.>] Oh no ! Read agn the list... a lot of people had trouble with the softrock : Encounter of the first type with surface mounting components, transformers wrongly wired.... Just to tell you mine : - I broke the leads of one of the transistors from the final stage, tightening to hard the brass screw used as a heat dissipater (on 6.1 boards)
- I reversed the QSE IC(it didn't appreciate and run hot... and definitively cold after that) - I burned a op amp (I really don't know how, probably a ground problem with my computer) - I made a short with a transformer (T1, the most important on the TX side) ... and I'm sure others have made worth than that ;-) But at last, and with the help of my "ole good Tektro", I convinced this little fellow to work. Softrock is a good teacher. The very first one is a little bit tricky, the followings are easier to build... and the VNA feature of Rocky is so cool! Tnks to VE3NEA DO NOT Give up! Most of the problems are due to bad transformers. Even if they look ok, they are responsible of almost 80 % of the failures. And it won't be fun if it worked the first time ... F6itu Marc
