[Elecraft] K3 is yet to come in my shack

[Don Wilhelm]

Daniel,

It all depends on your confidence and skill level for troubleshooting.
If your confidence level for finding and troubleshooting problems is 
high, then put it all together and give it the old "smoke test".

OTOH, if you want to bring things up stage by stage, follow the assembly 
manual as it is written, and do everything one step at a time.  If you 
have the basic K3 working fine, and add an option where the results are 
not as expected, you can concentrate on what you did since it worked 
last.  If you instead choose the "put it all together and then test" 
approach, and a problem is encountered, about all that can be said is 
that the problem is "somewhere inside the K3" rather than being related 
to a specific option.

73,
Don W3FPR.

On 11/30/2011 3:47 PM, VE3GNO/YO3GJC Daniel wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> In few days I'll get my K3 in kit version. I was reading the instruction manual and did not figured out before 1st power-on step (before calibration) if I can install the 2nd RX-KRX3 and KBPF's on both RX's and than run calibration steps with both RX's installed (including 2nd RX DSP board).  There are any optional kit restrictions installation in 1st calibration step that I need to take care? I have also KDVR3 and KXV3A. I was actually wondering to do installation for all my optional boards than run calibration and allignment. Is this possible? The assembly manual is not clear or maybe I missed something in documentation. Any help/advise is more than welecome.
>
> 73 de VE3GNO Daniel
>