Grape 1 PCB Schematic and Footprints

[Joshua Lee]

Hello everyone,

My name is Joshua, KN6GFZ and I am with the Grove City College Amateur Radio Club (K3GCC).  We recently started a project where we plan to make the Grape 1 and join the HamSci PSWS network.  The first step for us is to make our PCB and we were hoping to use our machines (Voltera V1) on campus to make them in-house rather than purchase them online. Unfortunately, the provided Gerber Files are not optimal for our machines as the ground plane would require an entire trace.  Also, the drill files that were provided were not compatible with our software (KiCAD) and would need to be in either .dri or .xln format.

Would anyone happen to have the schematic or footprints for the components for the PCB or the drill files that would be compatible with our system?  If not, we will end up just purchasing the boards online rather than make them in-house.

Thank you very much and 73s,

Joshua

KN6GFZ

[Nathaniel Frissell]

Hi, Josh!

Instead of building a Grape 1, I would encourage you to build our new WSPRDaemon-Grape system. This is a MUCH more capable system.

See here:

• Overview Page: https://hamsci.org/wsprdaemon-sdr-overview-specifications-sourcing
• Setup Instructions: https://github.com/HamSCI/PSWS_Documentation/wiki/HF-wsprdaemon-Receiver

73 de Nathaniel W2NAF

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Nathaniel A. Frissell, Ph.D., W2NAF

Associate Professor

Department of Physics and Engineering

University of Scranton

HamSCI Lead

 

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