[Elecraft] K3 manual

[n2ey at aol.com]

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From: Brett gazdzinski <brett.gazdzinski at verizonbusiness.com>

>Looking at the manual, it looks like building the K3 is going
>to be really fun!

Just like every other Elecraft product.....

>I think you get the really fun part of building, without the endless
>soldering in of .01 caps and so on....

Hey! I like soldering!

>I always liked the winding and mounting of toroids, mounting
>of the chips and transistors and other parts, only the (seemingly) 
endless
>installation of caps and resistors got old after an hour or two...

I always found it relaxing. But then I like to line up all the color 
codes and capacitor labels up the same way, too....

>The only thing that bugs me is it looks from the pictures like
>the K3 uses the same (no fidelity) speaker as the K2.

Simple fix: External speaker.

>Wonderful, like old heathkits, that you can take the entire radio
>apart to fix a problem easy, any problem, and have instructions on
>how to do so.

Just like every other Elecraft product.....

And you'll be able to get factory-direct parts and technical support.

>It looks like there is a lot of extra room inside the K3, unlike
>any of the other brand rigs.

None of that is "extra" room. It's all there for a reason.

You watch - there will be some neat stuff for that space. The folks at 
Elecraft probably haven't even thought some of it up yet.

73 de Jim, N2EY
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