Elecraft K2 S/n 01432 Construction Update..

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Elecraft K2 S/n 01432 Construction Update..

Andy Cunningham-2
Guy's..

Just to let everyone who WILL see my e-mail on the reflector soon from this
morning...

To IGNORE...the "plea for help"...!  Time has passed today, since posting
that e-mail to the reflector...
the day is nearing closure...  ONCE AGAIN..!  My well respected
..."..Elecraft K2 Elmer" ...John Ross GM1BSG..
"saved the day"...!

On inspection of the rig (...a little closer than I had actually done while
constructing her early this morning...) it was
noticed, ...found... corrected...  that I had INDEED...not "mated" the
connector pins from one of the boards to the
connector on the "RF Board" quite correctly...!!

sigh..! ....blinks in disbelief..!  Yes..! indeed...the whole episode of
panic..was for no reason whatsoever... and
this was the reason as to my "baby" not turning on and lighting up this
morning..!!

I can now say WITH convictions...! that I feel "rather stupid...and small"
for overseasing this foresight..!  With a fresh
pair of eyes and a much better logical mind... John...actually noticed that
this was indeed the problem...  Without ALL
3 boards,...being "mated" together properly of course things will NOT
function as they should..!!

Here is one happy "Elecrafter" for sure... All that remains now is to go
ahead and "fine tune" the section for letting her
"sing" on 40m...!

Thanks to everyone who has and who probably will still...see the earlier
e-mail to the reflector... your comments are still welcome as they may help
others...but I for one are well on the road to the final success and so far,
barring this oversight
on my part....ALL stages have went very smoothly and much better than first
anticipated...

Thanks for the help guys....and the bandwidth...  Watch this Space...!

Andy
[hidden email]          "...I Just See It.!.."  John A. Ross
(RSD Communications circa 2004)
A.R.S.
GM0NWI QRP                                       "..It is vain to do with
more....             "A Dis-Orientated Kiwi...
"K2 S/n 01432 Soon To Be On-Air"                    what can be done with
less..             In The Northern Hemisphere..."

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Re: Elecraft K2 S/n 01432 Construction Update..

Joe Malloy
Andy GM0NWI wrote:

> Guy's..
>
> Just to let everyone who WILL see my e-mail on the reflector soon from
> this morning...
>
> To IGNORE...the "plea for help"...!  Time has passed today, since
> posting that e-mail to the reflector...
> the day is nearing closure...  ONCE AGAIN..!  My well respected
> ..."..Elecraft K2 Elmer" ...John Ross GM1BSG..
> "saved the day"...!
>
> On inspection of the rig (...a little closer than I had actually done
> while constructing her early this morning...) it was
> noticed, ...found... corrected...  that I had INDEED...not "mated" the
> connector pins from one of the boards to the
> connector on the "RF Board" quite correctly...!!
>
> sigh..! ....blinks in disbelief..!  Yes..! indeed...the whole episode
> of panic..was for no reason whatsoever... and
> this was the reason as to my "baby" not turning on and lighting up
> this morning..!!
>
> I can now say WITH convictions...! that I feel "rather stupid...and
> small" for overseasing this foresight..!


Hey, Andy, you don't have to feel stupid nor small -- we're not
electronics guys (most of us) and we all make pretty basic errors at
time.  In my case, the K2 was fine, just had to send it to Gary for a
bit of toroid swapping -- yup, I had switched two types of cores!

Congratulations of getting your K2 going -- I envy you the assembly
experience.

73,

Joe, W2RBA
K2 #01299
K1 #01005
KX1 #0020



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Re: Elecraft K2 S/n 01432 Construction Update..

Stewart Baker
In reply to this post by Andy Cunningham-2
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:59:42 +0100, Andy GM0NWI wrote:
> I can now say WITH convictions...! that I feel "rather stupid...and small"
>
> for overseasing this foresight..!  

Don't ever feel that about construction Andy.
This morning I did some more work on a Doppler DF system that I am building, and
managed to short +12V to an adjacent pin that should only have had 0 to +5V on
it. The result was a dead PIC microcomputer. Until I did that everything was
working fine. Oh well ! never mind, another PIC on order....

73
Stewart G3RXQ





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