Minor kit building tip

[Bill N2BC]

I've just started building K2#5290.  Thought I would pass along a small
building tip.

The search function of the current Adobe PDF reader is quite handy for
finding things in the manual.

Example 1:  Having just finished populating the caps on the Control
Board, I noticed the spot for C44 was empty. A quick search of the PDF
manual on "C44" took me to page 21 and explained that C44 is unused.

Example 2:  At this point I had expected all the non-electrolytic caps
to be mounted, but I had one .01uF (103) left over.  Since I had done a
thorough inventory, I figured I screwed up. A search on "103" eventually
took me to page 20 and the added C46 for the keying shaping circuit on
the bottom side of the board.

A caution... after finding your info in the PDF manual, double check
with your errata marked-up paper manual!

Anyway, the search function saves a lot of time flipping pages - and is
undoubtedly more thorough than scanning with tired eyes.  It works on
the schematic pages too!

Having fun!

73, Bill  N2BC

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[Tom Hammond-3]

Bill:

For what little help it may be, I have on my web site (www.n0ss.net)
searchable part location files for the K1 / K2 / KPA100 / KX1.

These are PARTS PLACEMENT (only) files, so you don't have to step
thru other textual references to the component if you're only looking
for where the heck it is on the PC board.

73,

Tom Hammond   N0SS

At 09:37 AM 1/5/2006, you wrote:
>The search function of the current Adobe PDF reader is quite handy
>for finding things in the manual.
>
>Example 1:  Having just finished populating the caps on the Control
>Board, I noticed the spot for C44 was empty. A quick search of the
>PDF manual on "C44" took me to page 21 and explained that C44 is unused.

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