Good Afternoon All, The schematic sheets for the production Lite+Xtall v8.3 kit have been updated to reflect a change to sockets on the main circuit board for J1 and J2. Pins are now used on each BPF module board for P100 and P101. This change results in a lower materials cost for the production kit.
The production circuit boards are in and the first of the production v8.3 kits was mailed to Robby, WB5RVZ, who is putting together a kit builder's document. Robby's document contains much useful information about the circuit functions in the kit as well as information on the building of the kit. Thanks Robby! The BPF filter boards are in a strip of four boards and will require the kit builder to hacksaw between the boards to separate the individual BPF boads. I use a small plastic miter box to help cut perpendicularly across the 0.65 inch wide strip and this seems to work well. If this is going to be a problem for people, please let me know. Over one hundred v8.3 kits will be mailed out early next week. At this date I am uncertain as to when I will have the CMOS Si570 devices that are on order. Kits will be mailed without the Si570 device and the Si570's will be mailed when available to those who have ordered the kit with the Si570. Thanks and 73, Tony KB9YIG
