[Elecraft] K2: The Dog Ate My Part

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Ha, ha! Jon, you might want to save that well chewed I.C.

As a 10 year old kid fascinated by "radio", my sable collie decided to taste
the binding of my prized, hardbound ARRL handbook - my first "radio book"
that I read so often I can almost recite whole paragraphs today. 

He made a pretty mess of one corner, chewing through the cover into the glue
along the spine. 

I patched it up with some cellophane tape and probably glared at him a lot
for a long time, but he was my "best bud" throughout my teenage years. He
died a decade later while I was away in the Army.

Half a century later I still have that book sitting on the shelf, and every
time I see or hold it I remember my old friend.

Ron AC7AC



-----Original Message-----
How embarrassing is this?
 
As I was working on the KPA100 last night, the EL5146CN op-amp (a small
8-pin IC) slipped out of my fingers and fell to the floor - right in front
of the idiot lab/pit mix who promptly decided to taste it.  She didn't
swallow it (fortunately), but it's well chewed and I have to order a
replacement from Elecraft.
 
Why me?  
 
Jon
KB1QBZ