“The instruction manual gives clear instructions, however, the testing of the radio requires an oscilloscope, which I dont have. The soldering practice was fun. The on board marking were great. Hearing the radio through the earpiece for the first time was great.I found it nearly impossible to get the voltage readings that the manual said I should be achieving and the speaker never worked. I went over my soldering very closely and there were no apparent mistakes. This made it frustrating.”
“Just got this today and haven't built it yet. Why the review so early? I've unpacked and examined the contents and it's a nice high quality kit. A bit larger than I expected but that's a good thing. I bought it for a learning experience to supplement some of the playing around I've done with an Arduino lately and this is a nice fun looking project.The instruction book looks well laid out. Looks like I'll have ample opportunity to use my oscilloscope and function generator to get the most knowledge out of the building experience. You could probably get by without these tools but wouldn't be able to test and learn as much during the build.Must have's for the build at minimum are a multimeter and soldering iron. I'd recommend the scope and signal generator too. They sell a signal generator kit that would probably work well enough and is low cost. Scopes can be had at pretty low cost now days too so I highly recommend that.I'll update this if there are any surprises but it all looks pretty straight forward. So should be fun.”
“Want to know how a am/fm radio works... in detail? This kit is it and you get to build it too. Great learning kit. Not much info on 'how to build' but the operational details are great. You may want to have some test equipment available to make the most of the experience. Signal Generator, O-scope and MultiMeter.”
