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Eagle files and BOM for the Minima HF radio

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Credit goes to Adrian over at http://yo4hhp.wordpress.com/ who did the original Eagle work and Ashhar Farhan over at http://www.phonestack.com/farhan/minima.html for the original Minima design.

There is a mailing list at http://www.freelists.org/archive/minima/recent for the Minima radio.

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What I've done is combine the two radio boards in to a single eagle brd/sch file and wrote up a BOM for DigiKey. What I'd like to do is be able to run boards off at OSHPark, buy a bag of parts of DigiKey and have a radio.

What still needs done:

  • Hole Drill Sizes. Adrian designed this for ease of home manufacture not for OSHPark so it will take some tweaks.
  • Cleanup silkscreen. It's pretty clean already there's just a bit of overlap here and there.
  • Cleanup part values for consistency
  • Cleanup BOM. There are a few resistor/capacitor lines that could be combined.
  • Verify BOM. I went through and generally picked the cheapest parts available. Many of these have fairly loose tolerances which might not work in a radio (I don't know).

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Quick Notes:

  • These boards aren't ready yet for OSHPark so don't spend the money on it just yet.
  • The BOM is reasonably complete but it is missing tuning inductors and a knob. Money could easily be saved by not buying SMA connectors and using a bit of coax. The LCD could also be bought elsewhere to save money.

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Eagle files and BOM for the Minima HF radio