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as an amateur radio operator have you thought about building a kit whether you're a new tech or a seasoned amateur extra kits may be just the thing for you let's explore the topic welcome to ask Dave episode 39 I'm Dave casler amateur radio call sign ke 0og here with a new episode of ask Dave today's topic is an introduction to the wide world of kits a kit can be defined very simply is a set of all the parts needed to assemble something along with instructions on how to do so we've all assembled kits whether it's a bicycle with some assembly required to furnish your flat packs just look at my study the bookshelf came as a flat pack and required assembly the same with the white set of drawers the desk itself and the treadmill in fact the treadmill assembly was so complicated I hired a neighborhood teenager to put it together for me so why are kids popular by doing the assembly yourself you save money that would otherwise have been spent on factory assembly no tacky assumption here the kit provider does all the design work and collects all the parts what's left for you is the assembly in amateur radio where the term kit usually implies something electronic the initial draw of kits many years ago was that they were much less expensive than equivalent finished gear the point was that the actual manufacturing is avoided and this works if the steps to manufacture product are essentially the same as the steps to build it as a kit all from discrete components of reasonable size the great heyday of kit building was back in the 1950s 60s 70s and into the early 1980s when companies like Heath kit and allied provided sophisticated kits I built my first ham station Heathkit HW 16 from a kit nowadays modern gear is too complex to provide as a kit electronics assembly technology has changed dramatically moving away from discrete parts to large-scale integrated circuits and specially programmed logic arrays further manufacturing costs have come way down with offshore manufacturing and robots circuit boards are no longer populated by hand in this computer card all of the components are assembled by machine and the parts are so tiny that it would be impractical to assemble this by hand and today there's much more emphasis on software rather than discrete components note however that if you'd like to play with the software Raspberry Pi and Arduino kits are available given that the change in manufacturing methods makes it impractical to provide kits to save manufacturing costs what is available in kit form for radio amateurs small qrp or low-power transceivers are popular and simple receivers signal generators station accessories and so on are all readily available note that these are all pre-designed then parts kits and instructions are created who creates these kits well it can be most anybody and the quality varies accordingly before purchasing a...