[Elecraft] K2 #6358 Build Begins

[Ian Stirling]

On Thursday 10 January 2008 08:53:24 pm bill KE5KWE wrote:

>  Also
> make sure that you match parts to their pictures and don't be hesitant of
> calling the guys and girls at Elecraft, when a part does not quite match. 
> Turns out that certain parts have changed appearances by color or shape.

  I identified every part and component and put them into bins,
plastic drawers with a pencil written note in the manual exactly
where everything was.  I identified a few parts by elimination
at the inventory stage. By the time I heated up the soldering
iron, everything was in place, indexed and ready when I needed
them.  I took a day or so to do the inventory and saw that some
fibre washers were missing - for the speaker no problem, but
they are used in the finals. Elecraft sent them to me before
I needed them.  I finished my first and only K2, and the 160m
"option" in a few hours less than a week.
  It has been over two and a half years since I built my K2 and
I made the point of doing a thorough inventory in mid 2005 on this
list.  If I had tried to fly by the seat of my pants, picking
through an unsorted bag of bits, it would have taken me at least
three times longer.

Ian, G4ICV, AB2GR, K2 #4962
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