[Elecraft] P3 Mounting Tip

[Fred Jensen]

I use the sticky back Velcro to hold my Garmin GPSIII+ to the dashboard 
of my truck, and I used a little bit to hold a muffin fan on top of my 
K2/100 for RTTY before I sold the KPA100.

I was having a continuous problem with the K3 moving around when I tried 
to tap or hold the switches, and I was pushing the paddle around on the 
desk [built my first keyer in 1956 and transitioned from the bug, so I 
tend to knock the paddle around a lot}.  Then I discovered "moulding 
tape" from the auto parts store.  Two tiny little squares under the 
front feet of the K3 and the paddle solved the problem.

I have to work a bit to get them unstuck, so don't use very much, but 
they leave no residue and my paddle might as well be screwed down.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 4/1/2014 10:37 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> To conserve desk space in my shack, I've always set my P3s on top of the
> K3s (two for SO2R contesting). Because I have the K3s tilted up with the
> fold-down bail, the P3s tended to slide down. Then I found a solution so
> simple that I'm ashamed to say I hadn't thought of it before -- small
> Velcro tabs on the front feet of the P3, to mating tabs on the top of
> the K3. As our friends in the UK might say, "it works a treat!"