[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