[Elecraft] Re: Wording

[email protected] [email protected]
Tue Jan 29 07:15:00 2002


In a message dated 1/28/02 2:08:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] 
writes:

> On 1/23/02 6:32 AM, Charles Greene at [email protected] wrote:
>  
>  >Isn't HB KIT redundant?  One or the other should get idea across.  Pretty 
>  >soon, just K2 should be enough, as more hams get the ides that K2 is 
>  >synonymous with KIT and HB.
>  
>  I thought HB (meaning Home Brew) meant something you built yourself, 
>  OTHER than a kit. You know, a scratch-built unit. Perhaps your own 
>  design, perhaps something copied from a schematic. (What we would refer 
>  to in the homebuilt aircraft world as "plans built" as opposed to "kit 
>  built")

I agree 100%. As much as I like my K2, it's not "homebrew", because I didn't 
build
it from scratch. Wayne and Eric have homebrew K2s, not me. Having designed 
and built many rigs from scratch, I say there is a BIG difference between 
homebrew and kitbuilt.
>  
>  A kit takes a lot of the sting out of home brew. All the parts are 
>  present, so there's little or no scrounging. And the design is known to 
>  work, at least in one or more instances.
>  
There is also the elimination of metalwork, PCB manufacture, software/firmware
development, and in many cases design.  

This is not meant as a slap at kitbuilding, but simply to avoid the blurring 
of
the meaning of "homebrew".

I simply describe a kit rig as a "kit", even though this is gramatically 
incorrect
once it's assembled. Perhaps we need a new term - I suggest "kitbuilt" (KB).

73 de Jim, N2EY