I regularly participate in EMCOMM/AUXCOMM using SHARES frequencies with government officials, so I decided it might be time to have radio capable of running those frequencies. While this was mildly challenging with only a magnifying glass, phone camera, and standard soldering station. It went reasonably quick and the finish product doesn’t look to bad. If you look close you can see a little left behind rosin I used to make the job easier. I did however clean that up with a swab & contact cleaner. Below is the almost finished cleaning up photo. If you look at the upper left of the diode grid you can see the rosin of which I spoke
….and below is the surface mount diode that was removed. it is the speck on the dime.
