OT: was soldering questions... thank you!

[K2QI]

Thanks to all who gave me suggestions on soldering.

Was able to perform the Extreme Signal RX mod without a hitch tonight.
Tested the radio, and all is well.  Only nervous part was soldering the
hookup wire to R56.  I was afraid I'd loosen it.  I kept my iron at 364*C
though and made sure contact was quick with R56; just long enough to tack
the wire in place.

Now just waiting for the noisy VFO kit to arrive so I can solder those
resistor/diode pairs into the RF board.  BTW, none of the vias on my board
had solder in them which made life pretty easy.

--
73 de James K2QI
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[Brett Howard]

For me the nervous part was injecting enough signal into the RX port to
activate the new feature!  Not every day you dump a full watt into the
rig.  

~Brett

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 01:35 -0400, James Sarte wrote:

> Thanks to all who gave me suggestions on soldering.
>
> Was able to perform the Extreme Signal RX mod without a hitch tonight.
> Tested the radio, and all is well.  Only nervous part was soldering the
> hookup wire to R56.  I was afraid I'd loosen it.  I kept my iron at 364*C
> though and made sure contact was quick with R56; just long enough to tack
> the wire in place.
>
> Now just waiting for the noisy VFO kit to arrive so I can solder those
> resistor/diode pairs into the RF board.  BTW, none of the vias on my board
> had solder in them which made life pretty easy.
>

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