Avionice Bending - PCB Manufacture: VHF COMM Radiohead

PCB-Pool has a really cool way of following the progress on your boards. The ones that I had made with them took about 8 days to arrive at my home. The boards came from Ireland. All in all, the Lockheed L-1011 project, will require a number of different custom boards to be made. A custom board has the advantage that I can build it to my specifications and to my specific size needs.

The following two images show the top and the bottom side of the board after the solder masks (green) have been applied and after UV Leveling.




You can see the pretty much solid ground plane on the bottom layer .. it's made quite a difference. Tomorrow, I start showing you the assemble process of the board. I did not silk-screen the board (of course if I would ever sell a version of it I would do that) because I know where the components go and I wanted to keep the cost of board down.