[Elecraft] a manual suggestion...

[Tom Hammond]

Hi Nate:

At 04:05 PM 11/9/03, Nate Lewis wrote:
>It'd be handy if the manuals each included images of the unpopulated boards.

If Elecraft finds the server space, high-res scans of all Elecraft PC 
boards WILL (eventually) be available to all. With the exception of a few 
really new kits (KX1 being one), I have scans of virtually all Current (and 
past) manufacture Elecraft kit boards... and Eric has them in-hand.

>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.

This, and being able to easily tace signal paths as they snake from top to 
bottom to top, were a couple of the reasons I undertook the scanning effort.

73,

Tom   N0SS