[Elecraft] Page 46, KX1 Manual, "Locate"

[David Toepfer]

This is why i endorse the idea of reading the manual through before actually
starting.  Such things don't happen then.

1) inventory parts
2) read manual through
3) sort parts
4) start building

dt
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--- Larry Kayser <kayser at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Page 46, KX1 Manual
> “Locate a small flat-blade screwdriver or tuning tool for use in 
> adjusting the trimmer capacitors…….”
> 
> Nothing to tell you to look in an envelope or package, just “Locate”…..
> 
> Neither the friendly “Turn the board top face up with KX1 in the upper 
> left corner.
> 
> Nor the complimentary “Turn the board bottom face up with jack J1 in the 
> upper right corner.”
> 
> just the ominous “Locate”.......
> 
> OK, so where does one “Locate” a tuning tool on a Saturday evening on a 
> small Island a mile off shore on a large lake in Eastern Ontario?
> 
> Contemplation, take the boat to shore, then the car, to somewhere 30 to 
> 50 miles away that might be open. Not a good idea.
> 
> Look through the house. Look through the cabin, crawl under the cabin 
> and look in the boxes of radio junk, find two ancient red tuning wands, 
> the wrong type of course, these came with Heathkits so many many years 
> ago. Also find, two Ham IV control boxes, three isolation transformers 
> and many boxes of old GE and Motorola radios – nothing to make a tuning 
> wand out of and resolve the “Locate” issue.
> 
> Come back to the house, go through all the little boxes of junk that 
> accumulate over the years, especially when one is building a cabin, then 
> a home, out buildings etc. Nothing.
> 
> Desperation. Slip into the bathroom and go through all the cupboards and 
> things and see if anything there can be conscripted into the urgent need 
> for a tuning wand. Beside a small bottle of black stuff is a small 
> plastic handled brush. The plastic looks good, reasonably hard, about 
> two inches long.
> 
> Quickly cut off the brush, chuck the remaining rod in a drill, grab a 
> file, and with the drill screaming, file down the plastic shaft to about 
> 1.3 mm. Carefully holding the small end, shave the slot end screwdriver, 
> testing fitting the result into 20a, 20b and 40 of the KX1 main board.
> 
> Now the magic “Locate” has been resolved. Peak up the trimmers on 20, 
> slip down to 40 and repeat the process. Enjoy becoming familiar with the 
> controls of the newly working KX1 receiver. Fool with this tiny receiver 
> for several hours.
> 
> This morning while getting ready to go ashore there was a call from the 
> bathroom asking if I had any idea what had happened to the Mascara 
> brush. Am I in denial or should I beg for forgiveness? Married to the 
> same lady for 44 years convinces me to suggest that Mascara would be 
> overdressed for the occasion – with some persuasion I get away with it – 
> well at least I think I got away with it.
> 
> During the boat ride to the mainland I am told to remember to stop by 
> the drug store so she can replace the Mascara brush that has gone 
> missing. Everything was going to be OK until she added as we were tying 
> up the boat at the shore if she should get two new brushes in case I 
> needed another one for my radio project!!!!!!
> 
> Are there any other things like “Locate” in the rest of the KX1 assembly 
> manual?
> 
> Larry
> VA3LK
> 
> 
> 
> 
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