[Elecraft] Re: Elecraft digest

[Tom Hammond]

WA2DKG writes:
>Sometime back I asked Eric if x-ray views of the PCB's were available
>anywhere on the site...He told me they were working on it...Has anyone
>heard anything more on this?...I would imagine producing them involves a
>lot of work at the drawing board...

I've not seen anything posted in this regard.

A while back, I scanned every available (at that time) Elecraft PC board, 
top 'n bottom, and saved each as a 150 DPI JPG file. I think I'm pretty 
current up thru Rev B of the K2, the KPA100, and KAT100. I also have 
similar scans of the K1 PC boards. I still have all those images available.

Using PhotoPaint (and I'm sure others would work well, too) I can bring up 
top and bottom images (in different but overlapping windows) and then use 
Ctrl-Tab to quickly swap between them. This allows me to 'follow' PC board 
lands from top to bottom and back again as I attempt to trace circuit paths 
across the PC board.

I sent the complete set to Elecraft a year ago, in the hope they'd add them 
to their site, but it's not happened.

I use these images quite a bit and was hoping others might find them useful 
as well.

I have tried to upload the images to my secondary web site at QSL.NET but 
haven't had much luck... virtually every attempt bombs off during the 
upload. I contacted QSL.NET but go no assistance other than the reply, 
"Works OK for me", from the owner. As a result, I still don't have them 
posted anywhere for others to access them.

73,

Tom  N0SS