[Elecraft] New Ham & First Time Builder

Fri Oct 25 23:31:00 2002

Hi gang,

No I have no experience of building Elecraft kits (yet), but one little 
thing I do now is check every resistor value both visually (reading the 
colour code) and with a digital ohm-meter.  Somethimes these little 
suckers are a bit off in value, but many more times, my old eyes 
mis-read one of the colours.  I find the blue body colour of 1% 
resistors makes is a bit hard for me to read the band colours easily.

FWIW.

73
Kevin
VK3DAP

Bob Tellefsen wrote:
> Dan
> To paraphrase former president Franklin Roosevelt, the only thing you have
> to fear is fear itself.
> 
> Yes, the K2 is a radio with a lot of parts, but that's all they are, just
> parts.  You put them on a board one at a time.  You check the directions and
> the description of the part, and go on.
> 
> We had one ham 94 years old who built his own K2.  I've worked him on the
> air using it, too.
> 
> We have a lot of first-time, or near-first-time, builders assembling their
> K2s successfully.
> 
> When you start, my best suggestion is a detailed parts inventory.  Not
> because you will be short a part, that seldom happens.  The idea is to
> familiarize yourself with the parts before you need to reach for them.
> There will surely be some you won't be familiar with, so that is a good time
> to identify them and know where they are in your parts kit.
> 
> Come on in, the water's fine.
> 
> 73, Bob N6WG
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Dan Lesley
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Elecraft] New Ham & First Time Builder
> 
> 
> Hello All!
>     I am very new to ham, in fact, I haven't even gotten my ticket yet. Even
> with that being the case, I've already been investigating the toys I wish to
> buy. I really like everything I have read about the K2, but I have read many
> different opinions as far as who should undertake such a project. I'd like
> to hear some opinions from people who have done this, and after giving you
> some knowledge of my background.
>     I have never taken on a project like this before. I have done some very
> minor soldering work, but it was many years ago as a child, so we may as
> well pretend I haven't done any soldering at all. I do have an extensive
> background in computers, and while I have done quite a bit of work with pc
> boards, I have never done so on the component level.
>     I have almost made the decision to give it a go, after doing some
> practice soldering on some inexpensive printed boards, but would like to
> gather some more opinions on this decision. I would like to hear anyones
> comments, but especially those that have had a similar lack of experience
> when they themselves started the project, and how difficult the kit was for
> them.
> 
> Thank you,
>     Dan Lesley
>     Atlantic, IA
> 
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