Surface Mount Components in Kits

[Karl Schulte]

Motorola sends hi-tech boards to central facility, replaces boards locally.
Beyond surface mt is more serious multi=layer boards. No home style soldering
method will work.  Such boards are required with modern circuitry, to keep
board size down and for handling huge number of leads, circuit paths,
jumpers, etc. that go along with it.  I still think Heath could bring out a
good SWL/portable Ham type receiver with some memories and a synthesizer
(perhaps a potted sub-assembly), or a tunable IF with crystal converter front
end with nice audio that would not need such complexity. This would be 70's
or early 80's, but could give better performance than the typical Sony or
Panasonic portable SW.  It would be a modern SX43, suitable for the living
room SWL with FM and AM for general use as well.

 I am going more retro; early Heath AT1 (in the mail to me I hope) through
DX60 (no room for the big "Indian" rigs) and building a couple of regens to
compliment my 1914 Crosley regen (one of the first made commercially) and
1935 SW3 (National regen SW) to represent late 20's and the late 40's. As
most collections work best with a theme, This will be a chronology of low end
beginner's radios spanning the whole history of radio. I've got cats whisker
Xtl sets too, using Fool's Gold and Galena. The 50's and 60's are pure Heath
except for a Viking Adventurer for sentamental reasons, as they pretty much
evoke the period and my early ham days. I wonder what sort of focus the
various collecters here use?  Just a sample to remember Novice days (how I
got the bug), SSB only, etc.

73

Karl
WA2KBZ

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