Ramsey Electronics manual Assembly Instructions, Building your FM10A Stereo Transmitter

ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS

Building your FM10A Stereo Transmitter

The following FM10A step-by-step assembly and adjustment directions are written with newcomers in mind. While many Ramsey kits are purchased by experienced hobbyists and ham radio operators, our instructions presume that this stereo transmitter could be your first ever kit project.

Ramsey Electronics Kit instruction manuals are designed around our "Learn as You Build" philosophy. To the extent that it is reasonably possible, we like to help you see why a given part goes into its PC board holes, as well as showing you how to do it. Our "Learn as You Build" assembly strategy works very well with our simpler kits, such as receivers and ham transmitters, where we can guide you through the schematic diagram from the antenna to the speaker. When a multi-function IC "chip" is the heart and soul of one of our kits, as is the case in this FM10A stereo transmitter, we try to make a reasonable compromise between following the signal path and just getting all parts in properly so you can enjoy your kit as soon as possible!

So, you can expect the following directions to be a nice blend of "Learn as You Build" and "Let's get these parts in right and as quickly as possible!"

First assembly steps

Use the boxes to check off your progress.

ˆCheck all received parts against the Parts list on page 6. The parts list describes the various markings that may be found on the kit parts.

Since you may appreciate some "warm-up" soldering practice as well as a chance to put some "landmarks" on the FM10A PC board, we'll first install some "hardware" components, to make the up-down, left-right orientation of the PC board as clear as possible.

In ALL the following instruction steps, our word "INSTALL" means this:

•Insert the part, oriented correctly, into its correct holes in the PC board.

•If helpful, gently BEND the part's wire leads or tabs to hold it in place, with the body of the part snugly against the top "component side" of the PC board.