Close

PDSR1 Closeups

A project log for PortableSDR

Fully stand-alone HF (Shortwave) Software Defined Transceiver & Vector Network Analyzer. Designed for rugged portable use. Highly hackable.

michael-r-coltonMichael R Colton 08/17/2014 at 23:142 Comments

I still have intentions to make an assembly video. But for now, I hope this will be of some use. Nricciar and John Laur are basically done assembling their PSDR1s, but both have asked for better pictures of the board so they know where to wire the connections between blocks.

Both have given good feedback on things that can be improved and little mistakes I made along the way. In my defense, the 75 MHz oscillator isn't too hard to solder with a microscope, hot air pencil, nerves of steel, and the hands of a surgeon, just saying. Also plenty of sleep the night before.

Go checkout Nricciar's Imgur account again (in the previous post) to see how far he's gotten. Awesome! It's pretty surreal to see those boards going together!

Does Hackaday.io allow posting images in the comments? If so I'd LOVE to see what other people are putting together as well.

Discussions

nricciar wrote 08/18/2014 at 19:08 point
Yea I should have used hot air and solder paste on the 75Mhz oscillator, would have saved myself a lot of stress :) But I am proof it is possible to get on with just an iron and some patience. One thing is for sure though... If you can get that part on there everything else should be a peice of cake.

  Are you sure? yes | no

Michael R Colton wrote 08/17/2014 at 23:17 point
Looks like you can't just click on the image to embiggen the images, but (at least in firefox) you can right-click "View Image" to get the larger size.

  Are you sure? yes | no