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About us, why kits? Our mission is to provide high quality low cost alternatives to the high priced broadcast equipment needed by low budget community radio stations. We do this by offering kits, much like the electronic kits such as “Heathkit” that were popular around 1970.

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Capacitors In older equipment, a common failure point is the electrolytic capacitors, especially the audio coupling capacitors. Sometimes they fail with a short, but more often, they dry out, become leaky, and gradually lose capacitance with age. The board just seems to sound worse as it gets older. So we send it out for reconditioning, which is usually to replace all of the electrolytic capacitors, and it sounds like new again.

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Compare We won't mention names here, but on this page we compare our products to the competition. The details you probably didn't think to ask about really matter. * Rugged rack mount power supply. * Plug in faders. * "Bi-polar" coupling capacitors, High temperature rated capacitors. * Modular construction. Standard IC's in sockets. Through-hole parts for serviceability. * High-headroom, instrumentation balanced inputs, with gain trims. * Balanced outputs, either floating or no…

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Products Consoles, and console modules All of our consoles are modular, using “quad-modules”, four inputs in a module. Combining in groups of four provides most of the advantages of a fully modular design at a lower cost and smaller size. Here are three, in 3 different sizes.

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Headquarters Kaatskit Radio Company 518-947-6420 sales@kaatskit.com We are located in Freehold, New York, north of the Catskill Mountains, about 2 hours north of New York City. Office hours are by appointment.

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Faders The quality of the faders is important, but good faders are very expensive! Practically, they fall into 3 categories: * The so-called “thin” faders are the least expensive, and are used by all inexpensive equipment. They work fine when they are new, but they are vulnerable to contamination. Usually, cleaning them makes them like new again, but with heavy use some will need to be replaced. * For a little extra cost, there are “rail” faders that go a long way toward solving the pro…

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Products Quad Stereo Line Amp It's 4 stereo line amps in a single package. You can use it as a distribution amp, level corrector, or hum eliminator. The outputs are transformerless cross-coupled active balanced, so you can ground either side like you can with a transformer. Since it's a kit, you can build it as either floating balanced, for best flexibility like a transformer, or you can build it non-floating like grounding the center tap of the transformer.

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Manuals * [Mic panel] * [Meter buffer] * Input module * [Main board] * [Switch board] * [Fader] * [Final assembly and configuration] * Monitor module * Output module * Chassis * [Bus board and power in board] * [Final assembly] * [Power supply]

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Products Mic Preamp Need a few extra mic inputs? 12 extra mic inputs? This external mic preamp connects at line level to the board with an RJ-45 connector. It is available in 3 different forms: * [Pod] Pod * [Panel] Panel * [Bare Board] Bare Board

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Mistakes We all make mistakes. This section is about the mistakes you might make when selecting your equipment. In community radio, we try to keep within a budget, which is often insanely low. Picking your console, you don't have enough money for what you really want. So what do you do? With the competitors, the only choice is to buy less than what you really want. Then, either you put up with it, or buy the whole thing again. With Kaatskit, you have another choice. Buy the large frame,…

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Power supply Look at the power supply. At the high end, you get a rugged rack-mount power supply. With the competitors, at prices comparable to ours, you get a “lump” or “wall-wart” power supply, underpowered. Our power supply is rated 5 amps, and is made by one of the leading makers of industrial power supplies. It has power to spare, so it can also power external “Studiohub” modules.

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Products Power Injector It's a power supply, with a distribution box. There are 16 jacks, 8 pairs, for “injecting” power into Studiohub+ cables, to power modules when you don't have another power source. Connectors * Input/Output: RJ-45 * L in/out +, jumped * L in/out -, jumped * R in/out +, jumped * Ground * NC * R in/out -, jumped * Power out -12V * Power out +12V

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Price list You custom build your own by your choice of modules. Here are some common configurations. Consoles Complete consoles: These prices are for complete consoles, ready for you to assemble. You can choose any number of faders in multiples of 4. This price also includes one monitor module, two multi-output modules (4 stereo outputs each), 2, 4, or 6 VU meters, power supply. Some configurations are available from stock. In some cases the metal cabinet is built to order, so allow 4 w…

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Products * Modular Consoles * Line Amp * Mic preamp * Power injector

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For a limited time, you can buy any console, kit or assembled, at one third off the published price. This offer expires September 30, 2015. We make this offer because we are new, it's a new product, and we want to get things moving. You will get a unit from the second production run. We have a few installed, and are still ramping up. This offer is limited to complete consoles. The discount offer does not apply to fader upgrades.

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Kaatskit Radio is a startup offering electronic kits for community radio. For stations with big goals and tiny budgets. * About us, why kits? * Products * Compare * Manuals and schematics * Prices * Mistakes * Contact us Kaatskit Radio Company 518-947-6420 sales@kaatskit.com