[Elecraft] K3 Assembly Tools

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Sometimes learning to achieve greater precision for its own sake can be an
enjoyable and educational pursuit, even if it makes no significant
difference in how the rig performs on the air.  

And then there are the occasional Hams who are using their rigs in a special
way that wants greater precision for their own satisfaction. One example
that turns up here regularly is a QRP operator who wants to know the output
power with high precision in order to run as close to 5 watts as possible
while feeling confident his power does not exceed 5 watts. Others here have
done careful adjustment of the AGC/S-meter to make the K3's meter match
another rig's meter or a standard of their own. Those are just two of
several threads I recall in recent months. 

Those optional calibration and adjustments are there for them, if they
choose to pursue them.

Ron AC7AC

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Don,

Thanks for the pointer to the XG2 -- yes, that is what I was trying to think
of.  About them being optional, I did see that but I was curious as to what
what gains by the "precise adjustments".  If the default settings give you a
fully working K3, what is being done by those who are making precise
adjustments?

phil