ElencoFM Radio Kit

Tout est fait pour ne pas se tromper.Tout est bien prévu, sauf qu'il faut d'abord traduire les textes en Français pour éviter les petites erreurs de montage.Il faut un petit fer à souder à bout très fin. Il fournissent l'étain, mais j'ai utilisé le mien (il contientun peu de Pb) car il fond plus rapidement. Il faut bien aérer avec un ventilo.Le plus difficile, c'est de régler les spires pour une meilleure réception. Il fonctionne fort et clair si les soudures sont réussies : bien inspecter chaque soudure en cas de bruit bizarre et si besoin titiller chaquecomposant.

Buena práctica de soldadura y algunos componentes como un amplificador operacional y básicos para armar este radio con pequeños ajustes. Es recomendable.

It’s a robust and good project kit to keep my 8 year old from the tablets and phones.

Some people might be disappointed without a frequency display for tuning, but it is a great soldering project, and you end up with a functional FM radio. Various people have designed cases that can be 3D printed, which is a nice finish to the project.

I've always wanted to learn to solder so I finally bought myself a soldering station and a few kits. The first kit I built was the Elenco Practice Solder Kit so that was my only previous soldering experience when I built this.A few notes:I used a Hakko FX888d soldering station set at 750 degrees.I used my own solder rather than the included lead-free solder.I took me a few hours to put together one afternoon.The negatives:The radio is very simple and can only tune via the scan, so it can be tricky to find a specific station.If you follow the order in the manual you end up installing tall components before some of the smaller ones, which can make it difficult to solder the smaller ones flush against the board if you have the board just sitting on the table.The sheet of resistors and capacitors makes it difficult to find the proper one because the component often covers the number and they aren't in numerical order.The actual radio receiver section is an surface mount IC that is already attached to the board, so you aren't really building the whole radio and learning all the theory of the different sections. The audio amplifier is also an IC. The documentation does try to explain how a radio works but I didn't study the section much.I am occasionally getting a clicking sound and I'm not sure if it is just due to the design of the radio or a flaw in my installation.The positives:I got the kit working first try with no problems.Comes with everything except general soldering equipmentYou first build the audio section and then test before finishing the RF section, which could help save some headaches troubleshooting.The audio is very loud and clear and the volume knob works great.There are a good variety of components to get practice with.The manual explains how to install the more unique pieces that a beginner may not understand.The instruction manual walks you through everythingThe kit is inexpensive.Radio reception is adequate.The volume knob has a nice click to turn the radio on when you turn the volume up from 0 (the potentiometer is also a switch which is neat to see if you have never seen how one works).Overall this is a good kit for a beginner who wants to get practice soldering and end up with something useful. As I write this I am listening to a local baseball game and the quality is just as good as using a regular radio.