Extruded Aluminum Enclosure Kit, Blue, for Ham It Up v1.3 RF Upconverter for NESDR and RTL-SDR radios

Nice case, well made and It was a snap to assemble the NooElec Ham It Up board inside. The fit and assembly was perfect, everything matched up exactly. All screws and hardware was included. Well worth the asking price.

It won't work with the Ham It Up Plus in year 2019, unless you drill a third hole on one of the end plates: toggle, sma are there but 2nd sma at that end needs a hole. See photo. The other end has 1 sma and 3 leds which are all thankfully pre-drilled.The Ham it up plus board is also narrower so it doesn't fit in or even touch the channels. That's not a bad thing, you just use the hex posts and nuts on the board and then the short screws on the bottom of the box to hold the posts: the board is rock solid in the box.The end pieces with the led holes and a single sma hole fits great. Take the nut and lock washer off the sma and slip the end piece on.The other end piece will need a third hole drilled. Now, the box I received had the toggle switch labeled, the IF out Sma labeled and the noise out Sma labeled-but no hole for the noise out Sma.So, basically they sent a new box with an old end piece! See photo, it shows the mismatch and missing hole.Even without that end piece on everything is rock solid, you can plug and unplug and work the toggle with zero movement of the board.Box is a very beautiful anodized blue.It came with 4 rubber feet to stick on.It also came with 2 extra end piece screws.So, great box.Missing a hole, box doesn't match the photo, end piece doesn't fit new versions, and 2 extra screws = 3 stars since I have to measure and try to drill the 3rd hole without scratching it up.

Great enclosure for housing my NooElect Upconverter. I would have rated it 5 stars but it was missing two (2) screws to hold the upconverter in place. It may possibly have not been included as part of the package, but not a deal breaker as I had a ton of left over screws from previous projects. The case is well built and the color is anodized in the metal. Looks good and protects the upconverter well.

I had the usual hassles setting it up but it was worth the effort. The gain settings on the RTL-SDR were critical. Once that was sorted I could listen to international shortwave with ease. I'm using SDR# for the spectrum display and demod. I've only had this a short time but if it is like the other Nooelec products I have it should be a solid, reliable device. My next project will be using this as part of a DRM shortwave receiver.

Great fit for the Ham It Up, with room to spare for a pre-amp or for the bare board of an RTL-SDR dongle. Same as the sliver enclosure, but the blue enclosure is rather stylish for what it is.

What use is an enclosure you can't mount the board in? This unit came with incorrect mounting screws (too small). Would have been great had the screws actually held the board in. If I had been sent correct screws, the enclosure could've been a bit smaller as well, so the board might slide into the grooves of the enclosure. Don't waste your money.

Case is great for protecting the circuit board and keeping it from getting damaged over time. But needs some work to actually function as RF shielding.As other have run into the tolerances in manufacturing of the Ham It up board means that often you have to get a file and expand some of the openings to get the circuit board to fit. I returned my Ham it Up circuit board twice to Amazon, and each one I received had a slightly different alignment problem with the jacks/connectors. But that is more of a problem with the Ham it up boards and not the case. I finally gave up and filed the case to get board to fit.Now the real problem with the case comes down to the screws, assembly and the anodized coating on the case itself. The anodized coating is a great protection for corrosion etc, but its also an insulator. Which means that the coating itself will keep the screws from making good contact and means the case doesn't work well as a shield from RF noise. To have this case properly ground and shield the circuit board you will have to sand the pieces with a fine emery paper to remove the anodized coating to make sure end pieces and circuit board standoffs make good contact.. On mine I lightly sanded the locations where the end plates make contact with the case so when assembled the end plates would ground to case correctly. Then I sanded the the location inside the case where the standoffs make contact with the case, so I had a good ground connection there. The before and after noise figures were night and day. Before the modifications the case was functioning more as an antenna than a shield as it was not properly grounded and was floating above ground. This problem isn't unique to this case, myself and others had to make same modification to the blue aluminum case for the usb dongles as well. As the anodized coating caused grounding problems there as well.I ran into the same problems as others with the one screw being to long and hitting the USB connector. Put screw in a vice and ground it down with a dremel tool and it now fits.Overall its a must have when it comes to protecting your equipment. Its unfortunate that such small details end up keeping it from being perfect. Attention to manufacturing tolerances on the Hamit up boards and this case would help significantly. Also masking of contact locations prior to having parts anodized would make sure case actually functions as a RF shield and would keep users from having to fix it themselves.

Fit and finish is near perfect. If you have ever assembled a PC from parts, you will be able to figure out the assembly without instructions. Where the standoffs go and what screw size to use will be obvious.