[Elecraft] Reflector name change?

Rick Hampton [email protected]
Mon Mar 29 08:37:01 2004


AMEN!!!!

Had I been a newcomer to kit building and read all this stuff, I would have scrapped
the idea of building a KX1, or ANY kit for that matter, figuring it required
professional training, skills, equipment, and complete devotion to the task at the
expense of everything else.

Dissertations about solder, flux, soldering irons, high-reliability soldering
techniques, etc. have their place, but for the HOBBY of AMATEUR RADIO (that is why
we're here, right?), it is indeed overkill as Allen noted.

And to think that KX1 #358 was built with a $10 soldering iron and solder purchased
from Radio Shack, and still has the audacity to work FLAWLESSLY!  Who would have
thought it possible?

Rick Hampton, WD8KEL
KX1 #358

Allen Ward wrote:

> I propose that the name of this reflector be changed to "Solder/soldering
> reflector."  Since there seems to be more on these topics than anything else
> it would seem a good idea.  Having spent a lot of the last (more than 50)
> years soldering and desoldering with many types and brands of solder and
> soldering/desoldering equipment I believe the topic long ago reached
> "overkill" in the present reflector!  Eutectic is a concept that is also
> used in Geology and perhaps elsewhere.  There is nothing magical here it is
> simply the mix that gives the lowest melting point and the lowest freezing
> point  (this latter is often missed).  Good technique, good equipment  and
> quality solder coupled with slow careful work and examination of completed
> solder joints should be enough without this constant "over"discussion of
> solder and soldering/desoldering.
> Allen KA5N