Another vote here for Hakko..I have the older version of the fx-888, plus their desoldering tool, plus their battery operated iron...and 5 star performance from all of them. Do be very careful about k

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Like the label says, that is truly "original".

#dummy

Oh yes, one of my top pet peeves when it comes to language butchering.."should of" versus "should have"..seems like that one has bubbled to the forefront in recent years. Another is "alot" versus "a l

@Jim Manley..I see the winning bid was just under 200 dollars; did you win the auction?

There is a lot more than just a couple relay boards and a set of LPFs. The formatting in the item description is a bit messed up, so that makes it a little confusing at first, there are 3 sets of item

While my station was virtually all used Heathkit equipment (HW-16, HW-101, etc) when I first got started, I never built one of their rigs as a kit..as a teenager enjoying the hobby on a paper route bu

My comment was not worded well, and, it seems, somewhat misinterpreted. And as this thread has progressed, my sense is its not worth continuing the debate in an attempt to clarify. I've always seen He

I've gotten a couple shipments from China to Florida in the past few weeks, no noticeable slow down in delivery. Have another from Seeed that just shipped and appears to be moving thru the process as

Damn that Hans, sending extra parts. What has gotten into him? Hopefully he'll make these "improvements", do that "formatting polishing", and maybe even sell a kit or two someday.. :) :) :) Its obviou

Can you post pics of your boards, both sides? If its not a construction mistake, same thing 3 times, then would have to be operational, and likely something common, power supply, as Hans notes (try fi

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I did a couple turns on a small core, worked fine. Its not a critical value for the functionality required.

Ok, so maybe I'm the only one missing something here, but..I don't see any photos. And I always love seeing creative "casing" ideas.

I would expect you to, definitely. Are you using the QLG-1 gps board with the U3S? As I was building mine, modifying, and testing, with a single BS170 into a 50 ohm resistor as a quick and easy dummy

Without the lpf relay board plugged in, and even with the relay/diode now installed on the U3S board, I think you'll need the 2 jumpers in place to essentially bypass anything related to the relay swi

I had one fail in a similar way, clusters of extraneous pixels, just one day it started, no trauma to the display, etc. After checking for anything obvious, decided it wasn't worth any further effort

This thread definitely confirms why, I'm guessing, so many people just buy the pre-programmed chip from Hans and call it a day. I'm not a qcx owner, just a U3S and clock owner. I'm reasonably skilled

I use an arduino board as as programming socket, and a USBTiny from Adafruit to do exactly what you are suggesting. No reason the mkll wouldn't work the same way.

I echo the vote for Hakko. I have the analog predecessor to the 888D, and swear by it. I've used some of the cheaper import units, and while I see them as adequate, the Hakko's performance more than j

I got an alert about it when I happened to be logged into the usps site a few days ago. Packages from Hans are one of few where my delivery person has to have a signature, so sounds like I need to pla

Take a look at the U3S 3.12 operating manual, and you'll see that you can configure multiple bands (along with modes, etc), and run automatically. For a multi-band WSPR config, you'll just need the U3