I’m not ready to declare victory just yet but I scratch built a CATS Pi i-gate - https://cats.radio/pages/igate.html - it’s doing something when I run a tx test so 🤞

Some very small 0402 components here but not too many! I used a hot air gun this time but might try my modded toaster oven when I get time to try making the bigger tracker board - https://gitlab.scd31.com/cats/mobile-transceiver

I didn’t find build instructions but handily the kicad BOM has LCSC part numbers.

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A metal raspberry pi case showing a hat circuit. It’s a metal rectangle, oriented vertically, on the right and a row of headers on the left. An antenna is connected on the bottom right

A small portion of a green printed circuit board showing some very small components next to an unpopulated SMA footprint. The components are in a cluster labelled L1, L2, C3, C4, C5 and are a mix of 0402 and 0603 sizes.