[Elecraft] Re. K2 board layout-enhancement suggestion.

[Tom Hammond]

At 09:52 PM 12/8/03, Mike  Lyness, AF4LQ wrote:

>At 11:01 PM 12/8/03, DAVE HEALY wrote:
>>I seem to be spending most of my construction time just finding where the 
>>parts go. Especially the capacitors.
>
>Good idea on the grid layout. As an alternative, if you have the 
>downloaded version of the manual you can use Acrobat to search the layout 
>for those hard to find items. Open the manual with Acrobat, go to the 
>board layouts near the end of the manual and use the graphic select 
>function in Acrobat to pick the board you're working on, then just use 
>Edit/Find to pick out the component location.

A possible (partial) solution):

I have just placed on my web site a 2-page searchable PDF (690kB) 
containing ONLY the parts placement illustrations from the K2 Rev E Manual.

Using Dave's suggestion, below, you can use Acrobat Reader to SEARCH for 
the desired component and have Reader highlight the component label within 
the board layout diagram. This is a WONDERFUL feature of Acrobat Reader.

Please note that the PDF file is rather large (esp. for being only two 
pages), but I think this is probably due to the fact that the two pages 
contains a LOT of 'references' and that they are high-res renderings of the 
PC board component placement diagram (which CAN, and should, be ZOOMed up 
to a larger format for viewing). Anyway, PLEASE do NOT view the file 
on-line, but SAVE it to your Hard Drive and then view it off-line later.

You can find the 2-page searchable PDF at:

   http://home.earthlink.net/~n0ss

Once there, drop down to the bottom of the page and click on the DOWNLOAD 
PAGE link. At the DOWNLOAD page, drop down to the articles related to the 
K2. The subject PDF is the last listing in that section.

73,

Tom  N0SS