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The Scout kit
http://www.qrpkits.com/scoutregen.html
I received mine and got it assembled this afternoon. Pretty nifty little radio and easy to build. No problems at all. The instruction manual gets an A+++. They did short me one part - A 1 meg/1/4w resistor. I had just started my Kitchin rcvr when this one came out. After a few days of counting my coins I decided to go for it. Figured it would be fun to compare with my homebrew. http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/95hb1768.pdf The little rig works great. Frankly I think the front end is better than mine. Mine was crippled without a BCB trap to notch out my local station. This one has no trap and the local is not a bother. It also seems like its not as prone to overload as my circuit. I thought the no-vernier tuning capacitor would be a big annoyance but its not so bad. The electronic fine tuning works great and the regeneration behaves well. I'm no fan of little tiny knobs but what the heck. Gonna do some review on the front end of mine now that I see it could be better. The kit gets a thumbs up from me. Total assembly time with the coil winding, decals, etc was about 4-5 leisurely hours. -Bill WX4A |
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