I see no disadvantage.
I have built three, each of which has all of options you are considering. As
David says there are some parts that need to be unsoldered, and a couple where
the through-holes need to be cleaned up for inserting something else.
Nonetheless, when I built mine even though I ordered the options at the same
time as the base kit, I finished the base kit completely first, then went back
in to add the options. Two reasons -- first, if there were to be a problem
somewhere I wanted to be able to analyze it in the least complicated way. So,
K2 first, test, then each option and its test. Second -- it's a kit. That's
part of the fun.
Ted, KN1CBR
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Message: 18
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 22:06:45 +0100
From: David Woolley <[email protected]>
To: AE0MM <[email protected]>, Elecraft Reflector
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 Build: Options Advice
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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The disadvantage is that you will need to unsolder some components. In
most cases, I think you can destroy the through holes, but there is at
least one case where you have to insert a new value in the old hole.
There used to be a, third party, product, called UnPCBs, which provide a
minimal dummy version of most of the modules, but the sales of the K2
dropped to a level where it wasn't worth another production run for the
PCBs for this.
--
David Woolley
Owner K2 06123
On 24/05/18 19:44, AE0MM wrote:
> I'm planning to build a K2/10 with the following options:
> KNB2
> KAT2
> KAF2
>
> Is there any disadvantage to building the base K2, then adding the
options later?
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