[Elecraft] In training for K2...

[Bill Coleman]

On 3/18/02 4:30 PM, Stuart Rohre at rohre@arlut.utexas.edu wrote:

>The Elecraft manuals are better quality manuals in both printing and in
>descriptions of the circuits and mechanical parts, than the Heath manuals I
>built from, (test equipment and the DX 20, 40, 35, linear, etc.)

My first Heathkit was a GR-81 on Christmas 1970. (Indeed, I have been 
listening to an AM radio station on that radio all the time I've been 
building my K2) My brother also built a GR-64 that same Christmas. I've 
also built an HR-10B.

The GR-64 was the only one with a PC board. I just remember all the 
exploded pictures showing the parts placement. 

I've built kits with worse instructions. The SouthWest Technical Products 
computer was probably the worst. ("Insert all resistors. Solder. Insert 
all capacitors. Solder. Insert all transistors and ICs. Solder....")



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
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