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I think hams who have never homebrewed miss out on the sheer joy of building a rig. They become like our children, such that even our crappier ones are loved unconditionally. These aforementioned hams also miss out on the frustration and tears over weeks/months of testing and evaluating. 73 de VK2AOE

Excellent, excellent series Nick. Fantastic explanations of each building block of the transceiver. I think each ham should at least watch, if not build, your project videos to understand how radios actually work. Congrats on finishing another project. Can’t wait for the next.

Excellent work mate, really pleased to see it finally finished and working. I reckon you must have been given a shoehorn for Christmas!

A very-well designed and home-brewed rig. It's got a nice mix of build techniques: perfboard, hand-routed PCB, ME pads, and your own TIA IF amps. The relay module gives it a good "mostly DIY" flavor: sometimes it makes more sense to buy something ready made than to futz with a not-very-interesting sub-system. --Todd K7TFC

Great job Nick hope you have lots of fun with the radio 73

Very impressive on the inside and a great looking radio on the outside!!!

Great job! Enjoy the radio! 😻🎙️📻

Hi Nick, well done. The propagation problems are my fault - I've been testing and evaluating 10m aerials and that's what has closed the band! 73 de Echelford M1GWZ

Minor nitpick. The 8-pin op-amp that you would use in in your preamp is a NE5532. the '34 is the version with four op-amp stages. It's a great audio op-amp for the price. No reason to go with anything with worst specs than this for an audio project. Great job on this transceiver series, thanks for sharing. I've been enjoying following along. Your detailed videos are really appreciated!

Well done Nick. Thanks for explaining it all and showing it off in operation. I learn a fair bit with every project you build.

A great project....Nice one!

Congrads, welldone

A very very nice build Nick, Just shows what you can do with some fairly simple modules and a LOT of persistence! The telescope comment, yes when I bought my scope many many years ago, the one thing missing was a bag of clear sky's 🙂 You need a bag or two of good dx... Same thing happened to me a couple of days ago, I've just got my new station plugged up and working, but when I demonstrated to to my neighbor - total deadness on just about all bands... The box you used, I've several of those on the shelf, and the blue panels are generally painted steel, which is a pain to work with limited tools. I tend to replace them with aluminium. Grab yourself some perforated aluminium sheet and use that as a speaker grill, saves a lot of drilling - You used to be able to get proper fine LS grill from Maplins, but with the demise of them it's a bit harder to find. I also draw up the front panel in a graphics package I use LibreCad / Libredraw as I'm a linux user but any of the major drawing packages will work. then print it out then laminate it. Cut the holes for the controls / display with a wad cutting punch and scalpel then glue the laminated sheet on the panel, and reinstall the controls. It covers a multitude of sins and for such a simple process it look very close to a professional panel. If you want some examples I'll send some images to you. Utube tends to strip out URL's so it's pointless giving them in the comments. Hope you have many happy hours using the rig, you certainly deserve it for all the efforts you have put into the build and in the making of the videos so we can all enjoy the process. Andy G0POY

Excellent series and glad it all came together so well. As you say Murphy's law (others are available!) comes into play and the signals go away. Perhaps another video showing it working in better conditions along with your comments on where it exceeds your expectations, what you learned and what you will do differently another time? Thanks again and best 73. G0ACE

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Good to see you have finished your radio Nice. Sadly mine didn't get any further than the VFO. I've lost the interest in both design and construction. I'm just too old. 73 and good luck. De HS0ZLQ, G0MIH.