Pixie CW transceiver

[Steve]

I made a start this evening, of what should be about 1 hours work. Sadly the colour coding on some of the resistors is illegible, violets look like browns, yellows are invisible against a yellow background, browns look like blacks etc., so I'll have to measure some of them before fitting. The part numbers on the two transistors are clear, but incredibly small, so magnifying glass needed.

I thought that the eBay photo might show the "Chinese colour code" a bit better, but immediately noticed that the photo of the assembled board had a capacitor fitted the wrong way around.

It looks to me that this circuit could actually be half the size.

Here's the pic with cap fitted wrong way.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391246170894?_...EBIDX%3AIT