{"id":1613,"date":"2009-05-01T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/the-dover-construction-club\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:50:57","slug":"the-dover-construction-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/the-dover-construction-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dover Construction Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last night there was a meeting of the Dover Construction Club (discussed by Nigel, M0NDE, in Solder Smoke #194). For the first time, the members agreed to be photographed.<\/p>\n

Above, in the foreground, Merv checks the main board of his softrock, Ian explains to Paul how a mod to an old FT101ZD will work, and Nigel is seen using the microscope and observe to Merv he has not soldered all the IC legs down on a SMD board. He says he knows. grin!!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ian Keyser, G3ROO, host of Dover Construction Club. At his bench in a separate part of the workshop where he has test equipment to diagnose the inevitable faults. Here he is working on the RAMU featured in a past edition of Sprat. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In a corner of the garden a brick arch leads to the workshop door, behind the brown door hides the secret world of the amateur radio constructor. Obviously, this is something of a clandestine operation. <\/span>
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<\/span>\"\"<\/a>Tony, sitting at the other end of Ian’s test area, taking down some CW. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>\"\"<\/a>In this workshop club members have bandsaw, milling machine, lathe, and pillar drill.<\/span>

Wow! That’s the kind of club that we’d all like to be part of — Nigel’s comments on SS 104 generated a lot of envious e-mail . Thanks a lot guys! <\/span>
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