[Elecraft] (OT) Baking PC boards in the toaster oven...

SMT soldering was designed to obtain high volume and high quality solder joints with great uniformity so that detailed inspection and rework are not necessary. It does this at considerable investment expense up front. The paste solder must be applied in a precise amount. This means a

[Elecraft] CW

My favorite technique for building CW speed is to simply play a chosen CW frequency at a wide filter setting over the speaker daily while doing tedious and even hated things that don't require total concentration such as running the washing machine, paying bills, cleaning house, etc. The

[Elecraft] Revisting audio after absence from the reflector

For my GMT logging, at Walmart I bought an LCD alarm clock with big numbers for time and date. Too bad there's no stock number on it. Placing the clock on the K2 top cover just behind the speaker grill, I discovered a couple db increase in audio and a flattening of audio response near the

[Elecraft] QST Review of KAT100 and KDSP2 in Jan 2005 Issue

In this review, the captions to the response curves say that they are for the DSP. Inspection shows that they actually reflect the combined response of the crystal filters and the DSP. So the uninitiated would conclude that the pass band response of the DSP is really that bad whereas the