52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 45: Fix something that is broken.
Challenge for 2025-11-03 - 2025-11-09:
Category: 🛠️ - Difficulty: 🟠
Fix something that is broken.
There's rarely nothing in a ham shack that needs fixing. This is your opportunity to overcome your procrastination!
Toots mentioning this challenge
| Date | User | User score | Status | Toot summary & link |
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| 2025-01-19 19:35:13 | lix@layer8.space | 1 | Working on it... | I can't do this week's #hamchallenge currently but fixed something instead.A few weeks ago, I built an T2LT antenna kit which unfortunately had a sporadic short in its pre-assembled PL-connector. I wasn't able to get stable readings on my NanoVNA and figured out it might be the connector. Today I confirmed that and hacked an alternative together. Now it's working and I have to wait for a new connector to finish the job. HC45 |
| 2025-03-18 20:14:57 | n8dmt@mastodon.radio | 20 | Success! | #HamChallenge HC45S Completed repair of Yaesu CD-41 drop in charger base that had a failed Q2 FET within (green light on always). Have had this occur on another CD-41 and replaced Q2 successfully following video guide from Jim AG6IF. A quick repair (took longer to get-out/put-away tools than the actual Q2 SOT-23 part replacement solder operation. It’s working again… Added Do Not Touch labels to both of my bases to remind users not to put fingers on the charging contacts. |
| 2025-05-19 00:56:28 | yo3gnd@mastodon.radio | 30 | Success! | #HC45S Before I used to activate with the SCU-17, I had a cheap $3 soundcard whose contacts I kept resoldering. Today I fixed it #HC45S and incorporated it into a SlimDigi.This is a neat design for a soundcard + hub for CAT on 891, which is tiny and uses USB-C. All credits go to LB8IJ. The choice of parts is great and while I'm not a fan of cables embedded in a device without a connector, I love how fast it is to deploy.https://www.printables.com/model/1235849-slimdigi-by-lb8ij-digital-interface |
| 2025-05-19 00:59:28 | yo3gnd@mastodon.radio | 30 | Success! | #HC45S Before I used to activate with the SCU-17, I had a cheap $3 soundcard whose contacts I kept resoldering. Today I fixed it #HC45S and incorporated it into a SlimDigi.This is a neat design for a soundcard + hub for CAT on 891, which is tiny and uses USB-C. All credits go to LB8IJ. The choice of parts is great and while I'm not a fan of cables embedded in a device without a connector, I love how fast it is to deploy.https://www.printables.com/model/1235849-slimdigi-by-lb8ij-digital-interface |
| 2025-05-19 01:03:29 | yo3gnd@mastodon.radio | 30 | Success! | #HC45S Before I used to activate with the SCU-17, I had a cheap $3 soundcard whose contacts I kept resoldering. Today I fixed it #HC45S and incorporated it into a SlimDigi.This is a neat design for a soundcard + hub for CAT on 891, which is tiny and uses USB-C. All credits go to LB8IJ. The choice of parts is great and while I'm not a fan of cables embedded in a device without a connector, I love how fast it is to deploy.It took a few prints.https://www.printables.com/model/1235849-slimdigi-by-lb |
| 2025-05-19 02:05:36 | yo3gnd@mastodon.radio | 30 | Success! | #HC45S Before I used to activate with the SCU-17, I had a cheap $3 soundcard which had wires loose after every use. Today I fixed it #HC45S and incorporated it into a SlimDigi.This is a neat design for a soundcard + hub for CAT on 891, which is tiny and uses USB-C. All credits go to LB8IJ. The choice of parts is great and while I'm not a fan of cables embedded in a device without a connector, I love how fast it is to deploy.It took a few prints.https://www.printables.com/model/1235849-slimdigi-b |
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