Lee
Bahr
(bahr521@earthlink.net)
Mon, 08 Feb 1999 23:02:19 -0600
So far I have spent 15 hours working on my Elecraft K2 beta test kit. I have not been rushing this thing as this kit has lots of parts and the board is double sided. If you solder in a part in the wrong place, a lot of time is needed to rectify the problem. So far, I have not put any of the parts in the wrong place and all has gone smoothly. This rig looks like a Swiss watch inside. My boards are now mounted in the cabinet. The cabinet is the most precision cabinet I have ever seen for any rig. It is made up of many parts yet, I swear, it would almost hold water without leaking. The cabinet is a piece of art. All the buttons, knobs, plugs, jacks, dial, meter, standoffs, cabinet, interface together very well. All the screws fit the mating surfaces perfectly. The mechanical engineering on this rig is awesome. Tomorrow, I conduct my first electrical tests. These tests checks out the microprocessor circuits in the rig as the rig uses it's own on board computer located on a microprocessor board just behind the front panel board. I am now just starting to stuff the main RF board. As you build up the main RF board you also run tests on each section as you go. Lee Bahr w0vt
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