{"id":1274,"date":"2016-05-11T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/putting-junk-mail-to-excellent-use-tony-g4wifs-proto-boards\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:10:21","slug":"putting-junk-mail-to-excellent-use-tony-g4wifs-proto-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/putting-junk-mail-to-excellent-use-tony-g4wifs-proto-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Junk Mail to Excellent Use: Tony G4WIF’s Proto-boards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tony Fishpool, G4WIF writes: <\/b><\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve been intrigued by Pete\u2019s matrix pad method. Of course, few of us have the machinery to mill them as Pete does, but etching is a possibility. Now some of Pete\u2019s boards clearly have a lot of noodling behind them. His boards are quite big with little areas of pads and space between. The layout for the whole project has clearly been considered in advance. <\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I wanted a board that I could make modular, take little time to etch and adapt for the circumstances. These \u201cproto-boards\u201d are the result.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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T<\/b><\/span><\/span>he project is Farhan\u2019s \u201csweeperino\u201d and one board is for the Si570, and the other the AD8307.<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The Si570 board is now complete and working:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The PCB method is pure Chuck Adams. His videos on YouTube describe the toner transfer method better than I could. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The only difference for me is that my glossy paper comes free from travel agent brochures. <\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Just express a passing interest in Viking River Cruises and you will never pay for PCB paper ever again!<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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There is a free printing only version of the software I use, so if SolderSmoke listeners want to use the proto-board design, I will happily email them the files.<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Kind regards<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Tony G4WIF<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Tony’s Version of Audio Section of N6QW’s LBS Receiver Tony Fishpool, G4WIF writes: I\u2019ve been intrigued by Pete\u2019s matrix pad method. Of course, few of us have the machinery to mill them as Pete does, but etching is a possibility. Now some of Pete\u2019s boards clearly have a lot of noodling behind them. His boards … Continue reading “Putting Junk Mail to Excellent Use: Tony G4WIF’s Proto-boards”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,66,41,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-chuck","category-farhan","category-juliano-pete","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}