[Elecraft] P3 - Appearent P3 Anomoly

[Ian White GM3SEK]

Alan Bloom wrote:
>
>The paint must also be removed from the sheet metal around each of the 
>points where it attaches to the 2D fasteners.

My recent P3 metalwork had much more paint underneath the spray masking 
tape than the 3-y-o K3 had. It needed a vicious stainless steel scratch 
pen to clean the P3 panels down to bare bright metal around the fixing 
points.

>Also make sure all the chassis screws are tight.
>
This is very important in Elecraft's 'flat pack' style of construction. 
With no internal chassis and no continuous edge-to-edge bonding between 
panels, RF shielding and grounding is *critically* dependent on that 
relatively small number of panel-to-panel fixings.


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73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek