[Elecraft] Looking for some help from an Elcraft builder in Massachusetts area.

[Neal Campbell and Sarah Ferrell]

Being one of those clogging the reflector recently with cries of help, 
let me put it in context.

In building the base kit I experienced only 3 problems:
I had a poor solder joint that kept me from getting the right AGC 
voltage but the troubleshooting guide led me to it almost immediately. 
The second problem was that I was getting less resistance than 
indicated when doing the RF board. It turned out that I had a solder 
connection that touched the case of one of the transistors and it 
'shorted' that path out. Took me a while to find it but it was just a 
small mistake, anyone would find it given a little time.
The third problem was that I mis-identified two diodes and 
inadvertantly swapped them. Doing a careful inventory at the beginning 
would have prevented that from happening.

The other thing I have asked for help on turned out to be me not 
following the instructions properly, forgetting to take out a capacitor 
when installing the SSB board.

So, 1 bad solder joint, 1 shorted solder joint, 1 parts 
misidentification and 1 not following instructions. Each of them was 
not hard to find and with the experts on the list, they can almost tell 
you what you've done!

Do not worry about building the kit, its really easy and turns out that 
its so much fun you want to keep building more!

73 de k3nc
On Feb 22, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Stephenaccor at aol.com wrote:

> Hello to everyone on the Elecraft Reflector. I subscribed to the 
> Reflector
> alittle over a week ago and have really enjoyed all the posts. It is 
> good to
> know that there are alot of really talented people out there who will 
> be able to
> help me if and when I get in trouble building the K2. I will be 
> ordering my K2
> in the next couple of days. I would be interested to know if there is 
> someone
> in the Massachusetts area that has a K2 that could offer some help. 
> Boy some
> of the problems I have been seeing are making me get second thoughts.
>
>                                       Steve Terry
>
>                                         W1KV
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