Now that softrock-40 mania has passed and softrock Mark 5 mania is
approaching, will be soon had SDR-908 mania??
George, how can you even begin to estimate how many of these to make
available in the first run??? I can't even imagine the demand, it's a
little frightening to even think about.
GL.
Art
At 09:04 PM 10/26/2005, you wrote:
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??? Took a look at the SDR-908 page, George. Looks and
sounds fantastic. I can't wait!
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Stan Rife
W5EWA
Houston, TX
K2 S/N 4216
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- -----Original Message-----
- From: softrock40@...
[
mailto:softrock40@...] On Behalf Of George Heron
N2APB
- Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:22 PM
- To: dds-vfo@...
- Cc: softrock40@...; QRP Tech; QRP-L; NJQRP
- Subject: [softrock40] Re: [dds-vfo] Bezel for Hantronix LCD
Display
- Trying to get a neat-looking panel appearance for these
ubiquitous LCD
- displays is always a challenge, but with a little homebrewing care
you can
- achieve pretty decent results.
- If you measure carefully, you can have an okay look with the black
body of
- the LCD unit extending a bit from the front panel.? As an
example, take a
- look at my prototype "SDR-908" project on the (preliminary)
page at
- ? It's not absolutely perfect,
but a
- number of the projects on my workbench never get past this point and
they
- look pretty good.
- You can take it a step further by making a clear "front panel
label",
- discussed many times in homebrewer circles, using your inkjet printer
to
- print text and graphics on clear acetate material used for overhead
- projector transparency slides.? The trick with the LCD is to
mount it flush
- with the front panel and put a thick black border on the acetate
label,
- surrounding the rectangular display.? That's what we did in
creating the
- nice front panel overlay for the Micro908 instrument
- (? You can leave the clear
plastic
- window in place, thus protecting the LCD surface, or you could use a
razor
- blade to carefully cut out the blank center area for maximum display
- clarity.
- 73, George N2APB
- PS:? I cross-posted this because the the topic is useful in the
other areas
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: "Mike W"
- To: "Mark Schreiner" ;
- Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 6:21 PM
- Subject: Re: [dds-vfo] Bezel for Hantronix LCD Display
- >
- >
- > On 26 Oct 2005 at 22:07, Mark Schreiner wrote:
- >
- >> I finally had time to do some chassis work last night to put
my IQ-VFO
- >> into a neater package (and keept he exposed parts from
finding all
- >> sorts of dangerous things when exposed).? Has anyone
found a nice
- >> bezel for the LCD display?? I checked Mouser & the
Hantronix web page
- >> but didn't see anything on it.? Actually, my metal work
turned out
- >> pretty good (better than other times I've worked on similar
projects)
- >> but would still like to put a nice bezel on to make it look
even more
- >> professional, after all, it deserves it!
- >>
- > Good question Mark, How do you get a "professional"
finish when mounting
- > these
- > LCD displays?. I seem to either have the entire 'body' exposed
or I just
- > cutout the display area, the first looks terrible and the second
is very
- > difficult to get right, and even if I do 'get it right' it still
looks
- > terrible and very amateur. Ideas on a postcard please..
- > Mike qthr
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