Hi folks,
I received my QCX 80 Mtr kit a couple weeks ago (kit no. 1536) and its now finished and undergoing tests. The only part of the kit I had some difficulty with was the transformer (T1 on the schematic) which becomes a little crampt on the 80 Mtr version due to the number of turns required.
Being a member of the "older" generation my eyesight is less-than-perfect and I rely on a magnifier which helps but also causes a reduced depth of field so all the connections on T1 are hard to see clearly. Anyway, after winding the transformer I decided it looked a bit rough so I re-wound it a second time before finally fitting it to the PCB but the second time around I found a method which made identification of the individual windings much easier.
If you have some spare coil wire/magnet wire kicking around in the junk box which is a different colour to that supplied with the kit then wind each winding with a different colour, it makes identification of the connections much easier and final assembly into the PCB becomes a breeze.
BTW, my T1 still looks terrible but works a treat :-)
73,s
Des (M0AYF)
