[Elecraft] New K3/100 & P3 Owner

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

Me too!

I just put together K3 6393 & P3 something-or-another, and I have a new
opinion on all of it. Next time I may pay someone else to put together a
$5000 radio, though it was an enjoyable ~10 hours for the radio (just
one hour for the P3). And there's so much to learn to run the radio that
I should have spent the 10H on that.

Two days ago I spent an hour trying to figure out how to get my mic
working (the bias setting was a note in the MH2 instruction sheet).
Yesterday I figured out why no one was answering me on CW (you have to
have VOX on if you're doing QSK or it doesn't transmit). I'm sure I'm
going to come up with a lot more of those.

So, I've had the radio for a week and I've made two contacts. At least
one was a state I needed for WAS.

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, William Wallace wrote:

> Well the UPS truck finally stopped passing by my QTH today!  He finally stopped today and gave me a well packaged box containing a K3/100 kit and a P3 kit.  Oh happy day!  K3/100 serial number 6396 and P3 serial number 2033.  After opening the package I began the easy (?) task (so I thought) of inventorying all the pieces of the kits.   I've got to tell you, all those little screws, nut, washers, etc looked a hell of a lot larger on my 27-inch iMac screen (PDF documentation) than they are in real life!  I can see a big need for a small magnetic screwdriver in my future.  I'll decide after I complete assembly of these two kits but I'm already leaning heavily toward factory assembly for my KPA-500 when the time comes....

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Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte