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« on: September 04, 2013, 2003 UTC »
So I should have one of these kits in the mailbox tommorrow. My only sdr experience is a RTL dongle and while fun to mess with I immediately wanted HF. A few dollars more than a converter for the RTL you can get the Softrock kit.
Anyone ever built one of these? This will be the most complex kit I have ever tried my hand at building.
Winding the coils is what scares me since I have never messed with them before. I will probly wind up with a pile of junk by the time I finish... but you never know.
From the ones on websdr and youtube they seem to work pretty good if you have a decent soundcard. Guess I'll find out soon. Here's to the smell of solder and fiddly parts.
Update
.... 2 days later and it's up and running. It wasn't too bad to build but winding coils isn't the most fun I have ever had and had soldering smd's was a challenge. Quite impressed for a sub $100 unit.
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