[Elecraft] Printing Quickstart Guide

[Tom Hammond]

At 07:48 09/20/2007, Dave Yarnes wrote:
>As an aside, I snagged Vic, K2VCO, last night on his "beta" K3 on 40 
>meters. Sure sounded good!  I also heard him tell the station he 
>worked before me that all the beta testers had received assembled 
>units (so the staff could practice assembly), but that one beta 
>tester had disassembled and then reassembled his beta K3.  Why? 
>Because he was apparently going to be involved in the manual 
>preparation!  Makes sense.  I'm guessing I know who that might be 
>too, although Vic didn't identify the person.  Isn't Ron, AC7AC, the 
>one who does a lot of that???

Yep.. Ron did it so he could write the manual. I'm not certain he has 
his K3 COMPLETELY back together yet...heheh!

I also took my K3 down to the nuts 'n screw level... well... someone 
(me) had to Field Test the Assembly Manual...!!!

Actually, the 'teardown' took 50 minutes, and the reassembly took 
about 3 to 3-1/2 hours.
BUT, for new 'assemblers' plan on 5-6 hours... taking the rig 'down' 
gave me a LOT of
pre-assembly knowledge that you'll not have the benefit of when you 
do a "from the ground up" build of your K3 kit.

73,

Tom   N0SS