Therefore, I will take the opportunity to wish you all Happy holidays, Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah, or whichever holidays you may want to celebrate at this time of the year.
Now for a little bit of radio:
I was watching some Youtube videos on home made TRXs, by ZL2CTM. He has a very neat style of home building using modules built on strip boards, then mounting on the copper clad side of a un-etched PCB (single or double sided). This should make for some quite good RF construction practice, at least on the HF bands, maybe on the lower VHF bands.
He uses old fashioned non-SMD style components, but actually surface mounted on the strip board. There is no reason that it could not be adapted for SMD style components, too, if space is at a premium, or for higher frequencies.
I have a good amount of strip boards ("Vero Boards"), some "island" boards, and some blank PCBs, so it is possible to start.
I also have some "island" experimental boards with a ground plane on the other side, this could potentially be used for higher VHF, and maybe, just maybe for some 432MHz experiments. This should prove an interesting experiment. Some RF shielding would be in order, though.
So what should happen here in the holiday season and next year ?
Now, I need to finish some projects and get my stock of components and PCB modules in better order. This process has started, but it needs to continue.
Then, I should probably start this by use the construction style mentioned above for the QO100 control boxes, outdoors and indoors. Will need a shielded box or two, too, though. After all, some of the frequencies of the system are in the 100s of MHz range.
How soon will I finis the next project ? We shall see.
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