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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 94 04:30:38 PDT
From: Ham-Homebrew Mailing List and Newsgroup <ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #92
To: Ham-Homebrew
Ham-Homebrew Digest Sat, 9 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 92
Today's Topics:
Directly plotting etch-resist on PC boards?
Fixing HV supply on 'scope
Modifying Vacuum Variables
Ramsey kits
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Date: 8 Apr 1994 13:13:25 +0100
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!acorn!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Directly plotting etch-resist on PC boards?
To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu
In article <1994Apr7.164358.6906@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes:
>What I'd really like is one of those plotters with a milling cutter
>instead of a pen. That's the slick way to go, no messy etching, and
>lots of nice groundplane.
>
Maybe the people building CNC drilling machines will be able to do this ..
However, a halfway house (still needs messy etching but getting away from
the problems with limited resolution of cheaper pens) might be to mill
away only the etch-resist.
Spray a clean board with an etch-resistant coating (Letraset protective
spray perhaps, or a damp-proofing spray for HT leads) then remove fine
lines from it with some sort of replacement pen. The force and stability
required to move a cutter that's attacking a thin plastic layer would
be much less than that required to mill copper, and there'd be less of
a problem with swarf.
I haven't tried this. I haven't even found time to try the etch-resist
pen yet, so I don't know how well that's going to work for my application.
I notice, however, that Staedtler have changed the design of their pens
slightly, and the packaging specifically claims that they're fast-
starting. Perhaps they're better than they used to be.
-adrian
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Date: 7 Apr 1994 08:59:04 GMT
From: olivea!inews.intel.com!ilx018.intel.com!ilx049.iil.intel.com!dbraun@ames.arpa
Subject: Fixing HV supply on 'scope
To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu
The HV winding in the power transformer of my scope (actually a old
cheesy Heathkit model) failed, and I was wondering: Is there
some easy replacement? It needs about 1000-1200 volts at maybe
1mA max. Don't Xerox machines have some little solid-state
module that provides the HV for their corona wires? Could one
of these work?
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Doug Braun Intel Israel, Ltd. M/S: IDC-42 (new mailstop!)
4X/N1OWU/AA Tel: 011-972-4-655069 dbraun@inside.intel.com
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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 17:17:42 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!darwin.sura.net!mlb.semi.harris.com!controls.ccd.harris.com!drs@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Modifying Vacuum Variables
To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu
I have an older vacuum variable that is of the plunger style. The newer type
have a screw mechanism. Anybody have experience with or know if it is within
an average persons mechanical ability to modify it to screw type? I saw a
couple of them at a hamfest that were supposedly originally plunge type.
--
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| Doug Snowden |
| N4IJ |
| email: drs@ccd.harris.com |
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Date: 9 Apr 94 02:31:02 GMT
From: agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!nagle@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: Ramsey kits
To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu
gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes:
>In article <CnFwKq.AxM@ra.nrl.navy.mil> drumhell@claudette.nrl.navy.mil (David Drumheller) writes:
>> I'm interested in getting on 440 mHz ... cheaply. So I would consider
>>building a Ramsey kit. (They cost about $160.) Questions: How easy are
>>they to build? Do they sell enclosures for them? How well do the radios
>>perform? How much test equipment do I need to calibrate and tune the
>>radio?
>Oh, oh, here we go again. The Ramsey kit is fairly easy to build, and
>yes they sell a cabinet. They don't perform that well, and you need
>sophisticated equipment, at least a spectrum analyzer, to tune them
>up properly.
Sounds about right. I've built a number of Ramsey kits of various flavors.
The stepping motor driver worked fine. The 20MHz receiver had 3 components
wrong and one misdrilled hole on the PC board, but it worked OK. (Why
20MHz? I just needed to see a working circuit with an NE602 at that
frequency.) I just built the MD-3 motion detector, which is a 1GHz
Doppler radar, and I can't even get it to oscillate. Tried changing
the RF transistor; no joy.
John Nagle
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 14:30:42 GMT
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!emory!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary@ames.arpa
To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu
References <2nvrf8$csa@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, <1994Apr7.164358.6906@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <2o3hp5$9b5@acorn.acorn.co.uk>
Reply-To : gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman)
Subject : Re: Directly plotting etch-resist on PC boards?
In article <2o3hp5$9b5@acorn.acorn.co.uk> agodwin@acorn.co.uk (Adrian Godwin) writes:
>In article <1994Apr7.164358.6906@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes:
>
>>What I'd really like is one of those plotters with a milling cutter
>>instead of a pen. That's the slick way to go, no messy etching, and
>>lots of nice groundplane.
>>
>
>Maybe the people building CNC drilling machines will be able to do this ..
They have, but they're quite expensive for an individual hobbiest. I've
also seen homebrew adaptations of regular plotters and Dremel tools. They
don't work very well because the plotter mechanism isn't designed to handle
the forces needed for milling.
>However, a halfway house (still needs messy etching but getting away from
>the problems with limited resolution of cheaper pens) might be to mill
>away only the etch-resist.
>
>Spray a clean board with an etch-resistant coating (Letraset protective
>spray perhaps, or a damp-proofing spray for HT leads) then remove fine
>lines from it with some sort of replacement pen. The force and stability
>required to move a cutter that's attacking a thin plastic layer would
>be much less than that required to mill copper, and there'd be less of
>a problem with swarf.
This is a clever idea. You could use a swivel knife as your pen. The
resist is likely to come off in curls though, so you probably need to
chase it with a whisk brush. At slow plotting speeds, you should be able
to keep the work area clear by hand. I think I'll try this out.
Gary
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