All,
well on my few days off, decided to get started on my N38S. It
took QUITE a while to go through the well over 100 pages of mods.
I was very overwhelmed. The PC board is beautiful (looks like the
ones used by LDG). I would certainly think that once the rig is
built and running, it would stay running for quite a while, if
built correctly.
The problem I have, and I say "I" is that I find that this type of
plated through board builds very well, but doesn't like to be
soldered and unsoldered, not the type I would like to experiment
with. This leaves me with a strong desire to build it pretty much
the way I want the first time. This meant lots of digging through
the mods.
As best as I can tell, I made Dougs mandatory revisions, then I
went through and made the changes for the 5 watt mod. I think I
will build the rig pretty much using the very good instructions
that came with the kit. I made the corrections right in the manual
for the 5 watt mod.
When I got to the Tick mod, only found one set of corrections to
deal with the side tone. It made reference to a first attempt at
correcting the problem, never found a second attempt. Does this
mean just use that solution?
I saw most people chose not to do the RIT mod. I have the parts,
but seems there is some reasons not to do it.
I have the sockets, all resistors, transistors in and some caps
(changed out the two with silver mica 330pf as suggested). I would
greatly appreciate suggestions before I proceed from those of you
who have this rig built successfully.
72
Jeff, AC4HF
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