Softrock RXTX 6.3 ordered

You remember in that last post how I said I had no intention of getting a radio that would let me use my new band privileges? Well the biggest hurdle was time and the cost of another radio. Luckily while reading QST (or it could have been Radcom (thanks G4HON)), I stumbled across the Softrock project and their RXTX 6.3 board. It was cheap and low power and I could build it myself and the instructions looked really good. So with a co-worker I ordered two kits with full band pass filters since no one on the email list at work would tell me what would be the best bands to try. Total cost around $120 which is well within the playing around with things budget. Our plan is to work on it two hours a week after our team meeting in the electronics lab at work. I've never had much success with building electronics, let's hope this one is different.