[Elecraft] #5956 construction questions

[Matthew D. Pitts]

Don,

Thanks for the quick response to my questions. I will be picking up a 
power supply after I get paid next week, but I'm hoping to have most of 
the work done by Tuesday (I'm almost finished with the control board as 
I write this). I'm finding that the kit is simpler to put together than 
it appears when you first open the box. :) I would recommend this kit to 
anyone that wants a quality radio and has the tools to build it with.

Don Wilhelm wrote:
> The short answer is YES to all.
>
> The long answer says that you will have to have a power supply to charge the
> battery anyway, and one cannot always expect a battery 'out of the box' to
> be fully charged, so it would be wise to just go ahead and make up a power
> cable rather than using the battery.
>
> The K2 manual indicates the best time to install the option headers - do it
> just as the manual indicates and you will not go wrong, and you will achieve
> your goal of getting it on the air at the first possilbe moment.
>
> It is easier to trim P5 before it is installed - just don't mix the trimmed
> one with the untrimmed one (there are 2 on the control board).
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR