[Elecraft] Building a K2

[Carl Clawson]

Sorry to hear of your problem, Ted, but I bet the K2 was cheaper than
physical therapy. Hope it helps.

I’m in phase 2 of the RF board, and having a blast. I can’t wait to fire up
the synth and receiver.

73, Carl WS7L

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:46 AM <edauer at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> Carl –
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> Just saw your note on the reflector.  This morning I completed the RF
> board on one I’ve been building since early February.  Al the soldering is
> done.  The rest is the mechanical parts.
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> It’s my fourth K2.  One I keep as a contest backup, two I’ve sold, and
> this one I am donating to a junior high school radio club.  I do them
> because the build is an extraordinary experience, made all the better by
> the excellence of Elecraft’s engineering, (and their support when I’ve
> needed it.)
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> There was an additional reason for my doing this latest one.  Not long ago
> I suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that pretty well disabled both the sensory
> and the fine motor control of my left arm and hand. (I can’t feel it when I
> am holding a screw or nut in the fingers of my left hand, and trying to
> manipulate something that small is damn near impossible.)  I undertook this
> build as a home-made form of physical therapy.  It required some strange
> adaptations on my part and some of it was slow going.  We’ll see in another
> few days whether it went together at is should.
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> Whatever the outcome, I greatly enjoyed the ride.  Nothing like it.
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> Ted, KN1CBR
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