Hi Max, I'm assuming that you have an enclosure from Sunil (VU3SUA) by the description.? He has pictures on his website showing how he has done the? RX/TX LED wire-up. The website is??the pictures are the second and third from the last.
He is picking up the 12V RX and TX control signals from the uBITX RX/TX relay by soldering wires to the bottom of the uBITX PCB.? He also picks up the ground from the relay.? He then routes 3 wires (RX,TX,GND) to a small prototype board with series current limiting resistors on RX and TX.? No reason you couldn't put your resistors anywhere along that route.? I would have put them right on the PCB.