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Re: Looking for a PCB

 

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Hello Bill.

You asked what color enclosure I would want for the MCT.? I am not choosy.? A friend made me an enclosure for one of the mct's but it does not fit the board it was for.? It was the friends first attempts to do 3D printing.? I am like you in that I was building both Bruce's (W8BH) MCT and his pocket MCT.? I prefer the pocket mct and it is a great option when you have to take it somewhere (like a club meeting).? I prefer and enclosure though as live electronics die a violent death on my work bench that I use the Pile it method on!? I do love to build though and have several projects on the bench now.? Most are timers (UV timer, or photo timers) but one is a VK3BHR LCR meter.? I prefer his design since it measures low capacity and inductance parts where the Chinese offerings seem to balk at anything below 25pf and 25?h.

I prefer cw.? Right now I am off the air for lack of a decent antenna that works.? I have a 500ft inverted VEE doublet up but it does not work.? I think it is because the solid core ladderline wire has a break in it somewhere. Also it is only up 20ft.?? I used to be very good at cw but that was back in the 70's so not so much any more.

I am glad the LA3FY chimed in with the link to his gerbers.? I thought he had given them to me before but I could not find them on my hard drive.

I was not familiar with teh KS4NS version.? Where did you find information on that one?

I have been in a library a couple times here but found their offerings to be totally useless.? I understand that they can not keep books on the shelf that are current but books on the Arduino or even the PIC have been around for several years and are and were very popular with the maker crowd so I would have expected to see at least 1 on the shelf.? I had seen a lot of people state their local libraries offer 3D printing as a service.

You mention working for a university.? I retired from CWU (Central Washington University) as an IT specialist 8 years ago.? The university library was not too bad,? at least they had books on computer related subjects.? Also since I maintained the computers in the Cad labs I had access to 3D printers.? I never used that service but I had access to them.? Now I live too far away to even attempt to use them.

Thank you.

Jim Pruitt
WA7DUY

On 3/2/2024 6:21 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:




On 3/2/2024 3:02 AM, Jim Pruitt wrote:
Hello Bill.

LA3FY and KI4PSR both did W8TEE pc boards.? LA3FY sent me the gerbers for his but KI4PSR never shared.? As I recall,? the KI4PSR board was quite large by comparison.

Hmmm.? I don't have the LA3FY PCB.? Maybe that's the one.
I have the W8BH, the KI4PSR and a third by KS4NS but, as
I said, they are all too big to fit in the box.? I have
a completed W8BH and it works like a charm.? I am hoping
to revive my morse skills after several decades of inactivity.
(My last CW contact was as DA1WO back in 1978!!)? But I
really want to build all of them.


I am also building 2 of W8BH MCT designs (1 of each).? How much would you charge for the enclosures for them?

Charge?? Have no idea.? Do people really do that?? :-)
What color(s) would you want?? I have a blue one I haven't
used cause one of the boards I bought came with a black
enclosure of its own.? And I have other colors of filament.

??????????????????????????????????????? Oddly enough this 3 city area libraries do not offer 3D printing nor do they have a single Maker or computer book and yet the area has one of the highest per capita PHD populations in the country!

Probably because libraries as anachronistic.? I, personally, have
not been in a library in over 15 years that I can remember and I
used to work at a University? in the building right next door to
the library.? I think at this point it would be pretty much impossible
for a library to keep up to date books on computer related stuff
on their shelves and with the existence of the web, why bother.


As I recall, I did start a KI4PSR board but gave up on it when W8BH came out with his designs and layouts.

I have a completed KI4PSR board but haven't put it in a box yet.
Will soon, though.


I hope that helps.

I guess I need to look around for the LA3FY PCB.? Could? you send me
the gerbers?

bill
KB3YV (formerly N2APY and DA1WO)



Good luck.

Jim Pruitt
WA7DUY








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