New project - Ubitx - Radi2cino

I've always been interested in building my own radio. I've seen many projects available on the net which I could get my hands dirty with. I had a WSPR kit which I've finished working on it but I had little problem and somehow I lost interest on it.  I saw another one which allows SSB/QRP kits from India. It comes as a full assembled board but with no case and lot of other interesting projects which can be based on that board. The UBITX kit is made available by VU2ESE and can be bought from his website at:

http://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx/

This kit is selling like a hot cake, snapped most of the available kits just few days after it was launched at the end of last year. Currently, it is being back-ordered, and it usually takes around 2 months to get yours ready for shipping. Mine is already in the post and unlucky me, I choose to get it shipped via India Post and it takes weeks to reach me I guess. Should've choose DHL shipping for an extra USD$10. BTW, the kit cost is just USD$109 for now, the same price when it was launched last year. 

BTW, while waiting for the UBITX to arrive, I've ordered a Raduino replacement from a US ham, W0EB. This Raduino replacement has been designed/developed by W0EB/W2CTX/N5IB and made it available for US$45 (shipped to Malaysia). The kit comes unassembled and it comes with two SMD chips and lots of SMD resistors and caps. This is my first time working on SMD and the only tool I've is soldering iron. Anyway, managed to assemble it but yet to test it out. 

Had a problem with Si5351a, developed some bridges with some of the pins. So, applied lot of flux to remove the bridges. Since this is my first time doing SMD soldering and I think it is good enough and if it doesn't work later on, I'll need to re work on it again.

The case that I have bought, I was thinking of getting a smaller one, but for now, this is good enough. Front panel ready, back panel will wait. Forgotten to buy the UHF connector for the case.

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