In this picture, Rodney and Jim inspect a tuner from and old VCR and are trying to decide if there was anything we could use in this unit. We have been salvaging parts from the donated defunct consumer electronics units like old portable telephones, VCRs, Answering machines, portable radios, and anything other electronic device that is laying around the garage. In this picture, Lou is disassembling a circuit board from an old portable telephone. It is amazing how many good parts you can get from one of these circuit boards. This is a picture of the newest member of our builders group discussing how a part's leads are numbered and how to place the part on the board.
Building is for everyone.
His dad is looking on, and neither him or his son are presently licensed Amateur Radio Operators. Click on Projects page to view what we have been doing. The Internet proves to be an excellent medium to provide the Amateur Radio Builder with some excellent information sources. There are numerous excellent builder and operator sites on the internet to provide information necessary to help get good radio designs out to the wide Amateur Radio Community at a minimum cost. Surfing the net will provide you with some excellent ideas, circuits, technical information, and many radios that are just plain fun to build.