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Board arrived - and just looking at it is amazing

 

The uBITX got here this morning at 10am local time. It was worth the DHL trackable shipment to see it go from Hyderabad to Bangalore, over to Leipzig, Germany (dear to lovers of J.S. Bach!), then to Belgium, then back to Leipzig for some reason, then off to Cincinnati, and thus to our area.

Let me tell you, Team HFSignals, that one would usually expect a kit for the kind of price you're charging, but here we are with a fully assembled main board. Pretty amazing. And if that board is hand soldered, it's amazingly neat. It's also neat to see the bi-directional IF amplifiers implemented with surface mount parts, saving a bit of room. It's so neat that any modifications I conceived of - possible all-solid-state TR switching - would make me reluctant to mess up the beauty of the board! On top of that, it's packed in a plastic box to re-use and store more small parts!

Will take a while to decide how to wire it up and package it, but thank you once again!

John Seboldt K0JD
Milwaukee, WI
 

Wow,
That is John Sebolt, there folks! I suppose all of us have grokked his website. Welcome John, it is an honour.
- f


On 20 Dec 2017 10:38 pm, "John Seboldt K0JD" <k0jd-l@...> wrote:
The uBITX got here this morning at 10am local time. It was worth the DHL trackable shipment to see it go from Hyderabad to Bangalore, over to Leipzig, Germany (dear to lovers of J.S. Bach!), then to Belgium, then back to Leipzig for some reason, then off to Cincinnati, and thus to our area.

Let me tell you, Team HFSignals, that one would usually expect a kit for the kind of price you're charging, but here we are with a fully assembled main board. Pretty amazing. And if that board is hand soldered, it's amazingly neat. It's also neat to see the bi-directional IF amplifiers implemented with surface mount parts, saving a bit of room. It's so neat that any modifications I conceived of - possible all-solid-state TR switching - would make me reluctant to mess up the beauty of the board! On top of that, it's packed in a plastic box to re-use and store more small parts!

Will take a while to decide how to wire it up and package it, but thank you once again!

John Seboldt K0JD
Milwaukee, WI
 

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Ha, am I that famous? Well perhaps so, but mostly for older analog projects on the website. So here I am stepping back into hamming and homebrew after a bit of an absence. I was documenting a lot of my analog homebrew work, and just beginning to mess around with DDS VFO's. So glad I didn't go too far with it now because it's getting simpler!

Looking forward to playing with the uBITX

John Seboldt K0JD
Milwaukee, WI


On 12/20/2017 13:12, Ashhar Farhan wrote:

Wow,
That is John Sebolt, there folks! I suppose all of us have grokked his website. Welcome John, it is an honour.
- f


On 20 Dec 2017 10:38 pm, "John Seboldt K0JD" <k0jd-l@...> wrote:
The uBITX got here this morning at 10am local time. It was worth the DHL trackable shipment to see it go from Hyderabad to Bangalore, over to Leipzig, Germany (dear to lovers of J.S. Bach!), then to Belgium, then back to Leipzig for some reason, then off to Cincinnati, and thus to our area.

Let me tell you, Team HFSignals, that one would usually expect a kit for the kind of price you're charging, but here we are with a fully assembled main board. Pretty amazing. And if that board is hand soldered, it's amazingly neat. It's also neat to see the bi-directional IF amplifiers implemented with surface mount parts, saving a bit of room. It's so neat that any modifications I conceived of - possible all-solid-state TR switching - would make me reluctant to mess up the beauty of the board! On top of that, it's packed in a plastic box to re-use and store more small parts!

Will take a while to decide how to wire it up and package it, but thank you once again!

John Seboldt K0JD
Milwaukee, WI
lostfrogsrecords
 

I am also impressed with the high quality appearance of this new board!
Dave, KI4PSR

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