Soldering – Golb.be

New PCB for the Automatic Magnetic Loop Tuner with extra features

Reviving a hardware project often means revisiting past designs-and sometimes, embracing the lessons they teach. After months of redrawing schematics…

To Do List For 2024

Porting the Autmatic Magnetic Loop Tuner project to the Teensy 4.0 platform Building a Nano CW keyer https://github.com/k3ng/k3ng_cw_keyer/tree/master Describing and…

Z-Match – Soldering It All Together

Now that the two toroids are prepared, and everything is already mounted into the enclosure lid, we can start soldering…

Z-Match – Winding Toroid T2

The project descibes to use a FT37-43 toroid. This toroid is manufactured by Amidon. I’m using a similar toroid made…

Z-Match – Winding Toroid T1

Green wire, 5 turns Start with the green wire. In the parts list it is stated this wire should be…

Z Match – Preparing The Enclosure

The original design features the Radio-Shack P/N 270-233 box, wich measures 5″ 1/16 x 2″ 5/8 x 1″ 5/8. I…

Z Match – Preparing The Poly Capacitors

The capacitors that are used in this ATU are CMB-443BF’s. You can find them on AliExpress. These capacitors are used…

Icom External Keypad V1.21 – Released

I released the project files of the Icom External Keypad V1.21. You can find them on the Icom External Keypad…

QRP Labs QCX – Power Supply: TOPK 20000mAh Power Bank

On the Belgian Facebook group “AliExpress voor makers” I saw a powerbank pass by with quite a number of good…

Icom External Keypad Connector Cable

To connect the external keypad to your Icom radio you’ll need to make a connector cable. For this we use…

IC-7300 External Keyboard – V1.00 Finished

The 8 pin screw connector finally arrived, so last weekend I took some time to assemble the 4 remaining PCB’s…

Automatic Magnetic Loop Tuner – Smaller Enclosure Finished

When our first batch of automatic magnetic loop tuners was finished, I started looking for another enclosure. One that was…