[Elecraft] RE: K2: 80m & 17m Weak RX, no TX

[Brian Lloyd]

On May 27, 2008, at 9:28 PM, John Frerichs wrote:

> Duhh!  I'm so stupid!  I remember reading in the manual that some  
> caps are marked with a zero and some aren't.
>
>  I still reversed Caps: 12/15 and 35/31.  Cap 12/15 values are  
> "560".  Cap 35/31 are marked "560".  Guess what I did?  Yup.  I read  
> value "560" and placed MARKING "560" in its place.  Argh!  What an  
> idiot I am!
>
>  Now I have to re-reverse them, so 80/17 will work right.  Yipes!   
> At least they're easy to get to!
>
>  I'm kicking myself HARD for that idiotic blunder!

Don't feel bad about that. A couple of times the students pulled that  
one on me when we were assembling the K2. Fortunately I caught it and  
was able to rectify the problem before we went any further. This is  
why I would insist that two students work together with one stuffing  
the board and the other reading parts values. That way everything got  
looked at twice. It helped a lot but there were still errors.

Brian Lloyd
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