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Step 3Now the fun begins
Ok, its now finally time to roll up our sleeves and crack on with this project.
We need to scratch of the green protective stuff from two places on the underside of the unit. The first place if right where the built in antenna starts if you look at the gizmo the same way it is in the pic the start of the antenna is a slightly longer bit of track close to the bottom edge, if you have good eyes you will also notice that there is a tiny through hole at the start of the antenna. The second scratching needs to be done on the grounding plane; this is the large bit of copper that covers most of the underside of the board. Using that there pointy tip on your soldering iron cover the exposed copper bits with a thin layer of solder, be vary carful not to apply too much heat as you could lift the tracks. If the solder doesnt take the first time dont panic just try scratching a little more.
Just as a side note I used an X-Acto knife to do my scratching.
Next we take our pigtail thingy and cut off the little tiny connector, strip of about an inch of insulation and peel back the braided shielding. Twist all the stands of shielding together so the stick out to one side. Now strip about a quarter inch of insulation from the inner conductor and twist the stands together. Is should start to look something like the pic. Tin both the inner conductor and the shielding. Dont use too much solder when tinning.
We need to scratch of the green protective stuff from two places on the underside of the unit. The first place if right where the built in antenna starts if you look at the gizmo the same way it is in the pic the start of the antenna is a slightly longer bit of track close to the bottom edge, if you have good eyes you will also notice that there is a tiny through hole at the start of the antenna. The second scratching needs to be done on the grounding plane; this is the large bit of copper that covers most of the underside of the board. Using that there pointy tip on your soldering iron cover the exposed copper bits with a thin layer of solder, be vary carful not to apply too much heat as you could lift the tracks. If the solder doesnt take the first time dont panic just try scratching a little more.
Just as a side note I used an X-Acto knife to do my scratching.
Next we take our pigtail thingy and cut off the little tiny connector, strip of about an inch of insulation and peel back the braided shielding. Twist all the stands of shielding together so the stick out to one side. Now strip about a quarter inch of insulation from the inner conductor and twist the stands together. Is should start to look something like the pic. Tin both the inner conductor and the shielding. Dont use too much solder when tinning.
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