[Ground-station] 5GHz amplifiers

[Bruce Perens]

Heat pads can be hand-soldered and then hand-desoldered using the 136F
low-temperature solder from Fast Chip on Amazon or ChipQuik.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 14:49 KENT BRITAIN via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> An inventory of stencils does make the job easier.
> That ground/heatsink pad is very difficult to do without one.
>
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> *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
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 24, 2018 11:08 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Ground-station] 5GHz amplifiers
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> 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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