Thanks for that input, Eric! 73,
Phil -- Sent from my iPhone 5S > On Mar 12, 2014, at 11:09, EricJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not so fast, Phil. It IS a fun project. I've done two: my own and one for a > fellow ham. (That's mine in the photo on the K1 Mods order page) It isn't > "exceptionally" difficult if you follow the Elecraft directions explicitly > for the retrofit. If you can build a K1, you can retrofit the backlight. > > However, it's not so easy that I would build a K1 knowing I was going to > retrofit it soon. If you have a chance to install it at the time of the > original build, that's the way to go. > > Eric > KE6US > >> On 3/12/2014 9:47 AM, Phil Wheeler wrote: >> Thanks, Peter. I have a 4-band K1 I seldom use (S/N #18) and was considering >> adding the backlight as a "fun project". Maybe not so "fun" :-) >> >> My less exotic approach of wearing a headlamp will have to do. >> >> 73, Phil w7ox >> >>> On 3/12/14, 9:13 AM, Peter Wollan wrote: >>> Retrofitting the K1 backlight is exceptionally difficult, and installing >>> new is easy. You could start assembling the K1, but for sure wait on the >>> lcd assembly till you get the backlight parts. The assembly instructions >>> are on the Elecraft site, you can read up on it before anything arrives. >>> >>> Peter W0LLN >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
