Hello again fellow listers. I'm the guy who wondered whether an inventory was important a couple weeks ago.
Well...yes it was! It made my "warm up" project, KX1 #2411, go very smoothly with no errors and no desoldering. I just had my first QSO, running on six "AA" alkaline cells and hooked up to my 40 meter dipole up in my attic. I had the KX1 hooked up to my switch-mode power supply but had forgotten to turn it on!! Thus the battery contact.... Worked KN4ZQ in Palmyra, VA with a 229. That's a good enough signal report for what must have been only one watt or so and so-so band condx this morning. I still have to build and install the autotuner and KX3080. On 7.022 my dipole's SWR was around 2:1 according to my MFJ259. Now I'm really looking forward to building the K2! Oh yes, the inventory...I did a complete inventory. I punched holes in a few sheets of heavy cardstock and put them into a large three ring binder. Then, as I inventoried each part, I Scotch taped it to the cardstock and wrote its ID next to it. I organized it according to capacitors, resistors, inductors, and so forth. For the components that did not easily lend themselves to taping I put them into a muffin tin. The ESD-sensitive stuff I kept in the appropriate packaging. As I built, I double checked each component's value with my Fluke DMM. I used the Toroid Guy's coils and that really was a worthwhile investment of a few bucks. I have them for the K2 also. The instructions were excellent with the same kind of attention to detail that I remember from Heathkit. I was skeptical that all those controls would line up and fit in the case and that the battery clearance would work out. No problem! Gotta go build some more now.....bye. Stan WB2LQF, Fishkill, NY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
