I woild like to build a Radio Jove receiver whose design is available on NASA website. However, I don't want to purchase the receiver, I would like to make it, but but I don't have any knowledge about the PCB design. May someone please help me to get the PCB manufacturing file?
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3$\begingroup$ the manual has a circuit diagram. If you need help with creating a pcb file. If you want advice with pcb manufacture, you may be better off asking at electronics $\endgroup$– James KCommented Nov 19, 2018 at 7:13
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1$\begingroup$ But go slow, Electronics SE is not as nice as Astronomy SE. So a simple question like "how can I make a PCB?" might get closed very quickly and down-voted. $\endgroup$– uhohCommented Nov 19, 2018 at 11:21
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1$\begingroup$ The "X-ray view" in Figure 4 gives some indication of the traces. You could try redrawing that in some program. Or you could just get some perforated board (remember that?) and to a bunch of soldering. There's a good chance though that it wouldn't work; it's easy to overheat the transistors unless you use sockets. $\endgroup$– uhohCommented Nov 19, 2018 at 11:23
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$\begingroup$ @uhoh I summarized the comments into an accessible answer to simplify life of the readers. Comments and suggestions for improvements are highly appreciated. $\endgroup$– B--rianCommented May 28, 2021 at 7:59
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As @JamesK already mentioned in a comment, the RCV manual contains a circuit diagram on page 14:
From your question it is not clear to me how much experience you have with PCB design and which software you are using. Back in the days, I had contact with Autodesk's EAGLE, but there are other free PCB alternatives like librepcb. In worst case, you do in fact have to redraw your design.
For prototyping, so-called breadboards do a pretty good job, which was mentioned in the comments as well by @uhoh.
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- On electronics.SE: Is there a directory of open source hardware projects?
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1$\begingroup$ Beautiful! Thanks for putting everything together in an answer post. $\endgroup$– uhohCommented May 28, 2021 at 12:47