[Elecraft] [KX1] "It's alive," sort of!

[EMD]

And now it's complete, KX1 #2140!  I still have to figure out how to
configure the Auto tuner but other than that it works.  I had one small
problem on the final build.  I had trouble with the wires under the battery
holders and so now I have 4 shiny new bolts with equally shiny nuts sticking
out from the bottom of my radio.  No big deal it's just not as sleek and
pretty.

Thanks to all who took the time to give me help with the trouble I had.

Going to be a long cold fall and winter so maybe a K2 will get me through
it.  Well see what Santa brings.

73, Ed KE7HGA



EMD wrote:
> 
> Well after getting discouraged I decided to take some time off from my KX1
> project.  After about 3 months I decided to get back at at with a little
> encouragement from Gary.  
> 
> I was having trouble with the receiver alignment, no signal.  I decided to
> go to the manual and review each step of the receiver build process and
> check for the obvious, wrong part installed and so on.  The first thing I
> found was I never installed R2x, then in a close inspection I found L10
> was cracked, crikey!  So I installed the missing resistor and ordered a
> new L10.  After installing L10 this morning I was amazed to hear a signal
> on my radio.  I have not had time for the alignment yet but I will get to
> it this afternoon.
> 
> So I hope to get finished and on the air soon, so I can frustrate everyone
> with my poor morse.  Another learning process.
> 
> 73,  Ed  KE7HGA
> 
> 
> 

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