[Elecraft] K1 resistor: Aberration or Mod?

[Joe Malloy]

Lloyd, R36 is supposed to have no connection if you have the KAT1 installed;
if there's no KAT1, then is should be connected.

Hope this helps!

72,

Joe, W2RBA


elecraft-admin@mailman.qth.net wrote:
> Looking at the insides of my trusty K1, the one
> with the probable faulty phone jack, which was built
> not by me, but is nonetheless filled, and very
> cleverly, too, with a beautiful assortment of small
> parts, stunningly arranged, it was hard not to notice
> that one skinny leg of the part R36 - the one on the
> RF board, by the antenna - was sticking decidedly into
> the air and not, as might be expected, snugly soldered
> to its special hole on the board, the one still filled
> with the solder left behind when it was, seemingly,
> purposefully removed from the board, and it led me to
> wonder what it might mean for the performance of the
> rig, and how or why it might have gotten that way.
>
>    Any ideas?