This is a pretty easy project if you've got some experience with a soldering iron and a bit of patience. There were some things that bugged me.

• Because the ICs went in after most of the capacitors and resistors, it was difficult to line up the pins. I think this should have gone first.
• There's no template for the faceplate for this radio so I had to do a lot of measuring and guessing.
• The button covers for the switches are hard to find. They could have thrown these in without adding cost to the kit.
• There was less teaching in the manual for this one than there was for the previous kit I'd built.
• I failed to include a toy robot in any of my pictures!

Despite the few drawbacks I listed above, this kit was lots of fun to build and it was really exciting to hear a CW signal come out the first time I fired it up. I'd definitely consider buying another of these kits for one of the other bands.

For a transceiver, the cost wasn't too bad (remembering that the previous receiver project cost more than half of this). I'm looking forward to making some contacts. I've been told that it's possible to work the world with less power than it takes to run a typical flashlight. I don't know about that but with the signals I've heard from all over the US, that's still not too shabby!