[Ground-station] 5GHz amplifiers

[KENT BRITAIN]

An inventory of stencils does make the job easier.That ground/heatsink pad is very difficult to do without one.


      From: Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com>
 To: KENT BRITAIN <wa5vjb at flash.net>; Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle at gmail.com>; Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 11:08 AM
 Subject: Re: [Ground-station] 5GHz amplifiers
   
KENT BRITAIN via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> writes:

> The PC Board is the easy part.
> Who installs that microscopic little thing?
> Virtually has to be done by machine.

Nah, that's a pretty big part.  I place parts like that on prototype
boards by hand with tweezers under my inspection microscope fairly
routinely (lots of MEMS sensors are in this size range these days).
It's important to have a decent stencil and fresh, fine particle solder
paste.  And a steady hand, of course...

73 - Bdale, KB0G


   
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