New K3/100 & P3 Owner
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Hello Folks, Well the UPS truck finally stopped passing by my QTH today! He finally stopped today and gave me a well packaged box containing a K3/100 kit and a P3 kit. Oh happy day! K3/100 serial number 6396 and P3 serial number 2033. After opening the package I began the easy (?) task (so I thought) of inventorying all the pieces of the kits. I've got to tell you, all those little screws, nut, washers, etc looked a hell of a lot larger on my 27-inch iMac screen (PDF documentation) than they are in real life! I can see a big need for a small magnetic screwdriver in my future. I'll decide after I complete assembly of these two kits but I'm already leaning heavily toward factory assembly for my KPA-500 when the time comes.... William Wallace [hidden email] K3/100 ser# 6396 P3 ser# 2033 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Me too!
I just put together K3 6393 & P3 something-or-another, and I have a new opinion on all of it. Next time I may pay someone else to put together a $5000 radio, though it was an enjoyable ~10 hours for the radio (just one hour for the P3). And there's so much to learn to run the radio that I should have spent the 10H on that. Two days ago I spent an hour trying to figure out how to get my mic working (the bias setting was a note in the MH2 instruction sheet). Yesterday I figured out why no one was answering me on CW (you have to have VOX on if you're doing QSK or it doesn't transmit). I'm sure I'm going to come up with a lot more of those. So, I've had the radio for a week and I've made two contacts. At least one was a state I needed for WAS. On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, William Wallace wrote: > Well the UPS truck finally stopped passing by my QTH today! He finally stopped today and gave me a well packaged box containing a K3/100 kit and a P3 kit. Oh happy day! K3/100 serial number 6396 and P3 serial number 2033. After opening the package I began the easy (?) task (so I thought) of inventorying all the pieces of the kits. I've got to tell you, all those little screws, nut, washers, etc looked a hell of a lot larger on my 27-inch iMac screen (PDF documentation) than they are in real life! I can see a big need for a small magnetic screwdriver in my future. I'll decide after I complete assembly of these two kits but I'm already leaning heavily toward factory assembly for my KPA-500 when the time comes.... -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [hidden email] BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Some of us enjoy building and fixing more as much getting on the band.
Sent from my iPad On Apr 13, 2012, at 10:30 AM, "Hisashi T Fujinaka" <[hidden email]> wrote: > Me too! > > I just put together K3 6393 & P3 something-or-another, and I have a new > opinion on all of it. Next time I may pay someone else to put together a > $5000 radio, though it was an enjoyable ~10 hours for the radio (just > one hour for the P3). And there's so much to learn to run the radio that > I should have spent the 10H on that. > > Two days ago I spent an hour trying to figure out how to get my mic > working (the bias setting was a note in the MH2 instruction sheet). > Yesterday I figured out why no one was answering me on CW (you have to > have VOX on if you're doing QSK or it doesn't transmit). I'm sure I'm > going to come up with a lot more of those. > > So, I've had the radio for a week and I've made two contacts. At least > one was a state I needed for WAS. > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, William Wallace wrote: > >> Well the UPS truck finally stopped passing by my QTH today! He finally stopped today and gave me a well packaged box containing a K3/100 kit and a P3 kit. Oh happy day! K3/100 serial number 6396 and P3 serial number 2033. After opening the package I began the easy (?) task (so I thought) of inventorying all the pieces of the kits. I've got to tell you, all those little screws, nut, washers, etc looked a hell of a lot larger on my 27-inch iMac screen (PDF documentation) than they are in real life! I can see a big need for a small magnetic screwdriver in my future. I'll decide after I complete assembly of these two kits but I'm already leaning heavily toward factory assembly for my KPA-500 when the time comes.... > > -- > Hisashi T Fujinaka - [hidden email] > BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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