Meanwhile, back at the ranch..unpacking the RX2 kit..

O.K., enough GDO porn for the moment. Let's get back to the VK3AQZ kit. Righty right right, me brothers!

But, before we do, I want to make a point about the editorial policy here. Firstly, this will be a family blog but I reserve the right to drop a few S-bombs once in a while. (Hey, were you sitting with me at my bench in the "clubhouse", you'd hear as much. Secondly, I take a lot of pictures of projects I do because I like to admire my handiwork. I am not going to bust my ass to make this blog a bleeding QST or CQ article layout. I mean, I got as much bandwidth here as the sodding Blogger folks want to give me, so I am going to use it. So we straight, podnuh?

Good! Now on with the show.

This first post on the building of the RX2 are pictures of the kit as you receive from Lou. As you can see, he gives you a lot of stuff! Enjoy.

Just unpacked from Down Under..

..note plethora of goodies that Lou provides..

..including "spare bits"..

..and here are the boards: backplane board, control board, RF board, and noise generator board.

Here are the controls, hardware and project box.
Note that my Palomar bridge got curious and came over to take a look.

All of the parts will eventually get organized into one of these project boxes I have.

..and, just for grins, here's the workbench in the "clubhouse".

The takeaway here is that Lou gives you more than enough stuff to bring this project off. He even provides solder and -- as I said -- multiple versions of his labels! Hell, he even provides you with the files containing the label artwork so you can design your own!

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