[Elecraft] RE: Dumb mistakes I have made

[Gay Family]

	Actually, since I intend to "test" almost all things Elecraft designs,
maybe even more than one of some (if I can hide them from the XYL), I am
offering my services to Elecraft as a beta tester in the area of mistake
making. Testing by those with lots of experience and understanding shows
them how bulletproof their design / instructions are under perfect
circumstances. Testing by me will tell them how bulletproof by assemblers at
the other end of the bell curve. I am getting somewhat more dyslexic and
less keen of sense and thought, having passed AARP eligibility and now
getting all those interesting promotions associated with preventing further
body part failure and improving certain waning functions.

	Examples:

When R16 was to be installed before R15, inadvertently installing R15 first
but using R16's value. Force of habit of the years.

Sticking the capacitor with value code 101 into C101. Yep, double checked
every value under the magnifying light.

Soldering T2 into T7 and then wondering why it was over there all by itself.
Well, a "7 "looks like a "2" except for the missing little hook on the
bottom.

Interchanging "BLK" and "BRN". Those strings of capitals sort of blur into
the same mass. Thank god e-mail is no longer all caps.

No comment on the intermediate result with the green bargraph filter but the
Elecraft supplied stuff looked like a nose picking in its demise.

Had to find the "not installed" note for C76 on the schematic to realize
where the missing capacitor was.

	So, Wayne and Eric, send a K2 PA100 kit to the usual address where you've
sent all the K2 pieces (and the "missing" parts - my apologies as most of
them weren't really missing, only misplaced). I'm a little slow so it will
probably take me a few months to build it but I'll get back to you with the
"problem" list.

John, KD7OIU, K2 #1932, working almost perfectly and completely addicting!