Thank you all for the advice. I'm looking forward to beginning and I plan to pace myself and since I'm the caregiver for my wife I will have to ration things out. I'm sure I will be back, all of the posts are very interesting and seem to always generate a lot of interest and knowledgable answers.
73, Tom NB5Q On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Mark Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with all this advice. I can tell you that any questions you have > will be answered by the fine people on the Elecraft forums, and if they > can't, Elecraft provides exceptional help. I have built three Elecraft kits > and got help from one of the designers on one of the forums, on a weekend, > when I had an issue. You will not get help like that from anyone else. > > One thing I do for screws and small parts that are NOT ESD sensitive is to > count, measure and sort them all out into labeled bins of something like a > bead organizer first. Then you know you have what you need ahead of time. I > use the ones with individual round, screw top containers and put little > post it note labels on each. Work on a clean ESD protected surface and keep > the NON ESD parts bins away. > > Best of luck and there is great satisfaction in building what you use. > > 73, > > Mark > W7MLG > > On Dec 2, 2017 5:45 AM, "John Stengrevics" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> HI Tom, >> >> I, like you, chose to get back into ham radio after many years by >> building the K3S. >> >> Don suggestions are right on the money. Follow the instructions to the >> letter. >> >> I made 3 small errors, all found with the help of Elecraft tech support, >> and I think with Don’s help as well. I attribute the errors to trying to >> work too late into the night. So, don’t try to overdo and don’t rush it. >> >> 73, >> >> John >> WA1EAZ >> >> > On Dec 1, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Tom Norris <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > My first post, new builder, old man (74 years young!). I've been >> inactive >> > for some time but looking forward to getting back on CW with the new >> K3S, >> > P3 kits. I'm sure I will be back here for your valued and experienced >> > assistance during the build and setup. I have searched for and read a >> lot >> > of the posts on the list pertaining to assembling Elecraft kits. Thank >> you >> > and I hope to use a lot of the information in those posts. If you have >> any >> > up front advice in the assembly or setup of the following parts, I hope >> you >> > will share it with me. >> > >> > K3S 100W Xcvr. Kit ; P3-K Panadapter Kit; External Speaker; The Elecraft >> > K3S and P3 by Fred Cady; K3S ATU; K3S Gen. Cov. RX Module; KFL3C-400; >> 2.8 >> > for 2.7 kHz swap; KFL3B-FM; P3 Video/FFT Adapt.; P3 TX Monitor Adapt; >> 1.8-54 >> > MHz 200W; incl. P3TXMON >> > >> > Thanks a lot, >> > Tom Norris NB5Q New Mexico >> > ______________________________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > Message delivered to [email protected] >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
