Good Morning All, The v8.3 kits that are being mailed today are sorted into four small zip-loc bags. One bag contains the circuit board and the packet of ICs. Please look carefully in the IC packet for the two SOT23-5 ICs in the rolled up end of the IC anti-static bag. Abbreviated markings on the top of the FIN1002 IC indicate that it is the FIN1002.
The four BPF module kits are together in a zip-loc bag. Included with the BPF kits is a 9-pin length of a SIP socket strip. This socket strip is to be used as a tool to align the 2-pin and 3-pin sections of the header pins on the v8.3 circuit board. Afterwards the 9-pin socket may be snipped into 2-pin or 3-pin lengths as spares for the sockets that mount on the bottom of each BPF board. The third and forth zip-loc bags in the kit include the resistor/capacitor bag and a hardware bag. Included in the resistor/capacitor bag is an anti-static bag holding the programmed PIC, the PIC socket, the DIP switch and the 5 volts LM7805 TO-220 cased regulator IC. The 5 volt regulator mounts on top of the circuit board and the tab is fastened to the circuit board by 4-40 hardware provided in the kit. The programmed PIC, (Tom's v2.4 code), contains the following set of center frequencies for DIP switch inputs 0000 to 1111. 0 1.846 1 1.892 2 3.546 3 3.846 4 7.046 5 7.221 6 10.146 7 14.046 8 14.271 9 18.114 10 21.046 11 21.321 12 24.936 13 28.046 14 28.092 15 28.346 Feedback on the kit would be appreciated. Thanks and 73, Tony KB9YIG
