Assembling the circuit board
The following sequence is suggested
- Power supply components
Apply a 100 Ohm load and add resistors to the regulator to trim the voltage to 3.3 volt
- Audio amplifier components
Test that it works.
- Sockets for Q5, Q8, Q9 and Q11
- Pins for all external connections
- Sockets for microprocessor and Si5351 module
- All passive components except for the output/Class E components.
- All the semiconductors.
- Output/Class E components.