[Elecraft] troubles with kits

[Mike, W8ENG]

Herb:  Congratulations on getting you license.  I'm in the middle of
building  a K2 and having a great time with it.

If you watch the e-mail reflector, there are not really that many problems
being posted.  Most of the messages (excluding the net schedules, for sale
and contest items) are responses to questions.  I've posted one queston
here, and received two responsed within 2 hours, and several more over ths
next two days.  So far I have no regets about the K2 decision.

That siad you may want to consider starting with a simpler kit.  There are a
lot of others available.   Small Wonders Labs
http://www.smallwonderlabs.com/ makes several nice kits for under $100.00  I
built one of thier kits as practice for the K2.  TenTec
http://www.tentec.com/ also has kits, including a 2-meter transcevier that
you could use immediatly.

When you are ready to upgrade to General and looking for a HF radio the K2
is one of the best available, and the support is excellent.

Any way, good luck with what ever you decide, and welcome again to Ham
radio.

73

Mike, W8ENG

---- Original Message -----
From: <herbbonniewinn at racc2000.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:48 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] troubles with kits


I am Herb Winn a new ham (kc8ylj). I was going to try to build a kit for my
first
rig but am not sure now. I found the elecraft web and have noticed that all
that
is posted is troubles with kits. Is this common ? if so i'm not going to try
a kit.
Thanks    73     Herb
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