Aaron,
Try solder paste. ?You then just pick the part up with tweezers and place it close to the pads with the solder paste on. Then using your wife¡¯s embossing gun or a soldering iron with a hot air blower (I love my Weller butane portable (Portasol I think) soldering iron heat the junction and the parts snap into position as the solder paste melts. ?Eezy peezy. ?Just another fun thing to experiment with on a cold rainy or snowy day when you can¡¯t be out slinging up antenna wires. ?(I have found that any TEMPORARY antenna slung up on such a lousy day tends to be kept and turned into permanent by next spring. We moved into a new home 8 years ago and my temporary G5RV antenna is still up and working well. Other have been added since then. ?But the temporary one put up in the worst weather works best.)
Dave K8WPE
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On Dec 4, 2022, at 12:23 PM, Aaron K5ATG via groups.io <k5atg@...> wrote:
?Ok here is LPF 2.0 using SMT caps. I had some troubles with the SMT caps as they were hard for me to maneuver around to get in the right spot. It is my very first attempt at using SMT components, but I suspect that I will get better the more that I use them. Because of my current health condition, I can work only a few minutes a day. At this rate maybe sBITX v9 will be out by the time I finish lol. As with the first attempt at the LPF, let me know if I messed up. Everything is a learning experience.?

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Aaron K5ATG