K3NG Arduino CW Keyer K5BCQ Board Build Part IV

     Due to health issues, the holidays, and waiting on ordered components to arrive this project is going slower than the speed in which most people would do. I don't have an endless supply of parts just laying around the shack. So we will continue as we can. 

    I redid the picture showing what components that have been soldered to the board. I decided to simply color-code each type of component. I have found that this is easier to find parts that I have missed. Again I am not an EE (Electronics Engineer) I'm just an amateur radio operator and the word amateur is the keyword, trying to learn this stuff. This morning I finished all of the resistors. You need to pay attention because some of the resistors are rated for 1/8 watt and some are rated for 1/4 watt. 

Here is a drawing showing my progress so far.

Here is a photo showing the same progress as the drawing above.

Next up I will be doing the ceramic disk capacitors. Once you sit down and take a good look at it, there really aren't that many parts to this. The board itself is only 99mm x 87mm. I know for sure that I will be needing the single-row headers and the transistors. When you do order components, you really should order more than you need. The parts themselves are pretty cheap, sometimes the shipping and handling is more than the actual order of the parts. So order more than you need, like resistors. Even if I need only one resistor that is 1/4 watt 100 ohms is only two cents each. Order at least 100 of them and you will use them in later projects. You should just use your best judgement on the number of parts that you order. 

Stay Radioactive until next time

'72

Aaron K5ATG

Email: Aaron@K5ATG.com