As far as I can go I think!

This afternoon I installed all of the resistors and caps. I am to the point in the instructions to do some voltage tests. I am waiting on 10 1000pf caps that I soldered in the wrong place and had to cut out. So I will have to wait for the caps that I have ordered to get here. de Paul N0NBD

TUT enclosure

This afternoon I got my TUT enclosure punched, drilled and painted the first coat. I will let the paint cure a little, sand a couple spots and give it another coat. I used Terry WA0ITP's templates and it worked out great. I did mess up when I ordered from Ten Tec, I pushed the wrong button and got a TPC 45 instead of the 41 that most guys are using. It is a little larger but it will work fine. I can hardly wait to get things done and start making some contacts. de Paul N0NBD

Some more work on my TUT 80

After fishing this afternoon I sneaked upstairs to work on my TUT board. I had soldered some caps in the wrong spots. I have new caps ordered from Dan's so I cut the caps in half, heated the legs up and pulled them out. I got all the holes clean by heating them up a little and tapping the board on the bench... It worked fine and it does not look like I damaged the pads any. I think I will skip the step where I soldered the wrong caps and go on with the build until the caps arrive in the mail. Here is a picture of the board after the caps were removed de Paul N0NBD

February fishing at Buffalo

Today was sunny and 40 degrees so Richard and I went to Buffalo Lake to try our luck. The fish were not having any of what we were throwing at them. The Wildlife and Parks ranger did come by to check our lisenses. A few other people were fishing but not catching. Oh well the worst day fishing is still better than working de Paul N0NBD

TUT 80 waiting

I goofed up and soldered some caps in the wrong place. Today I ordered caps from Dan's. Terry WA0ITP posted some templates on the TUT group so I will work this weekend on getting my Ten Tec enclosure drilled and ready. I also have my Ten Tec 1056 to build so  may get to that while I am waiting for the caps to arrive we will see.The wx is supposed to be warm this weekend I may go fishing... de Paul N0NBD

TUT 80 and solder smoke

Here is a picture of the boatrd with the diodes and the 0.1 caps installed. It is a rainey day in SE Kansas so a good day to melt solder more later de Paul N0NBD

TUT 80 arrived

When I got home from work last night my TUT 80 was sitting on top of the mailbox. Cool! I will dig through it today and get started this evening de Paul N0NBD

It is ordered!

Tonight Terry WA0ITP and I made our ATS to ATS qso on 80 meters with 3 watts. It was great. Terry was getting clobbered so we called it quick. On the phone he reminded me that the FT80 kits were going fast. I read the posts that there were like only 20 left so with an abused credit card I got mine ordered. The comfirmation came back so all is good. I will make some posts once the kit gets here and I get started on it. de Paul N0NBD