[Elecraft] New K3/100 & P3 Owner

[hawley, charles j jr]

Some of us enjoy building and fixing more as much getting on the band. 

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On Apr 13, 2012, at 10:30 AM, "Hisashi T Fujinaka" <htodd at twofifty.com> wrote:

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