[Elecraft] KSB2 Install Question

[Carl J. Denbow]

This weekend I put together the SSB Board -- although I have a few hours of work left on the main K2 kit.  I wanted to make sure that I had SSB ready to go when the K2 is finished.  When I finished the SSB board and looked at the installation instructions, it had a rather weird sentence or two saying that if the filter crystals X7-X11 were ground on the left side that this would interfere with the SSB module installation.  Well, when I construct the RF board the instructions clearly said to ground the aforementioned crystals on both left and right side.  Furthermore, I did a test mounting of the SSB board and discovered that the left side grounds for the crystal covers do not seem to make any kind of physical contact with the SSB board.  My question is is this perhaps a case of my KSB2 instructions being written (2 May 00) before those from my main kit (22 Oct 02).  Perhaps, a modification was made in the RF board which makes these KSB2 instructions null and void.  It's either that, or poor instructions in the general kit manual.  And, we all know Elecraft wouldn't do that! :-)

Any clarification here would be appreciated!

Oh yes, for the record, I have SN 03116

73

Carl
N8VZ
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Carl J. Denbow, n8vz at qth.com on 5/9/2004