Xây dựng thiết bị của riêng bạn - thậm chí chỉ cần một bộ chuyển mạch loa đơn giản là một truyền thống ham. Bằng cách đặt thiết bị cùng mình, bạn trở nên quen thuộc với những hoạt động, sửa chữa và bảo trì các thiết bị hiện có của bạn. | 288 Part IV Building and Operating a Station That Works Building Equipment from a Kit Building your own gear even just a simple speaker switch is a great ham tradition. By putting equipment together yourself you become familiar with the operation repair and maintenance of your existing equipment. If you re just getting started in electronics I recommend that you start your building adventures with kits. When I got started you could find Heathkit in every ham shack. Today kits are available from many sources such as Ramsey Ten-Tec Vectronics RadioShack and others. You can find numerous kit vendors on the ARRL Technical Information Service Web page . org tis by clicking the TISfind link and entering Kit in the Search box. Choose the simpler kits until you are confident of your technique. Kits are a great budget-saving way to add test instruments to your workbench and various gadgets to your radio station. Not only that but you don t have to do the metal work and the finished result looks great too After you build a few kits you ll be ready to move on up to building a complete radio. Although the Elecraft K2 is the top-of-the-line radio kit available today numerous smaller QRP radio kits are available from other vendors. You can build most kits using just the maintenance tool kit. Concentrate on advancing your soldering skills. Strive to make the completed kit look like a master built it and take pride in the quality of your work. Read the manual and use the schematic to understand how the kit works. Observe how the kit is put together mechanically particularly the front panel displays and controls. Building Equipment from Scratch Building something by starting with a blank piece of paper or a magazine article and then putting it to use in your own station is a real thrill. Building from scratch is not too different from building a kit . . . except that you have to make your own kit. Your first project should be a copy of a circuit in a .
