[Elecraft] KX1 progress

[David F. Reed]

Folks,

You might imagine how much I really like my K2; I caught the Elecraft 
"bug" from it, and ordered a KX1 recently. 

My various disabilities had led me to get help (meaning build it for me) 
on the K2, and have been very happy with the results, but I decided to 
attempt to fix my workshop up to accommodate some of my disabilities as 
much as I could, and see if I could build the KX1.

My vision is fairly bad (cataracts) and aside from loss of light 
sensitivity, there is some loss of color vision also; so sorting the 
resistors and capacitors was a chore, and aside from an illuminated 
magnifier to work with, I added a DVM to check the resistors before 
installing them (and of course, do the testing steps) and a capacitance 
and inductance meter to do the same with the chokes and check my toroid 
winding where possible, and assure the correct value caps were used.

It is a bit of a strain to do, but so far so good; I am enjoying doing 
this, and I have a small milestone to report tonight; KX1 serial number 
1127 has passed assembly part 1, including all resistance, voltage, and 
functionality tests.

Tomorrow I start with part 2 of the assembly - I will report back when I 
get done with that or run into trouble; you folks on the list are an 
inspiration, and these are so much fun as rigs, and as kits, so I am 
smiling lots these days.

73 (or is it 72 here?) de W5SV, Dave