[Elecraft] Building the K2 - Buy Good Tools & Make it Fun

[lbailey@aep.com]

Rick....I'm red/green colorblind, too.  One night my wife said, "You're 
not wearing that to dinnner, are you?" And I said, "I don't know why not. 
I've worn it all day."

Like you, I've been checking resistors with a VOM or DMM since 1970.  Back 
then, I was building a Heathkit color TV & when I was installing the last 
of the resistors, I was coming up with one resistor that had one band with 
the wrong color.  Sure enough, I had mis-installed the resistor that I was 
looking for during an earlier phase of construction.  I just had to figure 
out which one it was.

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I'm one of the red/green colorblind folks, so every so often it's run to 
my
wife and ask her the color of something.  I check EVERY resistor with a
quality, recently calibrated desktop DMM.
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Eric & Wayne are my heroes today replacing Roy Rogers & John Wayne from 
yester-year.  I've been a ham since 1960 but there's nothing like the fun 
& self-esteem that you build after completing one of these kits.  Ham 
radio & the ensuing adventure were critical during my teen years in 
providing direction for my life & career.  (I completed my BSEE in 1970)

Here are links to stories of my early teen years about being bitten by the 
ham bug in 1959, SOS At Midnight, & Getting my Novice Ticket:
http://www.eham.net/articles/1521
http://www.eham.net/articles/1522
http://www.eham.net/articles/1523

Today, like you, I need more light & more magnification because the 
components & circuit boards are much smaller & I've aged a couple of 
decades, too.  Eric & Wayne have put forth a premier product with 
excellent instruction & guidance, as well as customer support.

73, Lynn, K5AVJ 



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