[Elecraft] Gary Surrency

[Frank A. Brodzik]

Just a note to publicly say thank you to Gary Surrency for his patience =
and expertise.  I am a new ham with no training in electronics.  I built =
the K-1 in part to learn about radio theory.  The kit went beautifully, =
until I had problems aligning it.  Try as I might, I could not locate =
the problem.  Gary to the rescue.  After fixing a shorted coax jumper =
and making some fine adjustments, Gary returned a fantastic radio.  I =
have been working (on novice 40m) as many states as I could, with all =
going smoothly.  Then I lost all power, all functions and most joy when =
I tried to change bands, and heard a loud "pop" (?crash).  I followed =
the do-it-yourself troubleshooting guide, but could not figure out =
how/why all leads to RF-Q7 were grounded.  A few e-mails to Guru Gary, =
and TADA the culprit (D-19) was found.  I am amazed that Gary seems to =
have this sixth sense and homed right in on D-19 as the problem.  Truly, =
his voodoo is great. =20

  

--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
or had an attachment.  Attachments are not allowed.  To learn how
to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html  ---