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" <[email protected]> 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 - [email protected] > 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:[email protected] > > 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
