[Elecraft] a manual suggestion...

Sun Nov 9 18:09:04 2003

Hi all,
  When I started building my K2, I photocopied both sides of all of the
boards.  This is effect gave me what Nate is suggesting.  Just a thought.
Tom McCulloch, WB2QDG
K2 s/n 1103

"I just think to get this far, and accomplish as much as we have, we should
feel better about this thing than we do. But unfortunately, because of
somebody's attitude, we're considered failures." --- N.Y. Yankees pitching
coach Mel Stottlemyre

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Lewis <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, November 09, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] a manual suggestion...

>It'd be handy if the manuals each included images of the unpopulated
boards.
>
>I didn't find the KX1 any tighter to build than the KSB2 was.  In both
>cases, though, I frequently flowed solder over two adjacent pads and had to
>go examine the circuit diagram to figure out whether they were supposed to
>be connected.  In every single case, the pads I'd bridged were really one
>pad, no solder mask in between, but I had to use the circuit diagram to
find
>this out.  Finding an arbitrary part designator in an unfamiliar diagram
>sometimes takes some doing, and in the KX1, a couple of the pads I was
>worrying about just connected to traces that disappeared under other parts.
>
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