That's right Tom. The front panel board comes separate from the panel itself, but all the pushbutton switches are pre-installed on the board. It's a matter of putting the right spacers in place, then mounting the board on the front panel and adding the knobs. The nice VFO A bezel and LCD display cover attach to the front with 2-56 screws.
The two encoders (VFO A and VFO B) are separate little modules that plug into the front panel board and are held in place on the front panel by nuts on their threaded bushings. Finally, the DSP board mounts "piggyback" on the front panel board and the whole front panel assembly is ready to plug into the main chassis assembly. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Folks: In Field Testing the (hopefully) soon-to-be-released K3 Assembly Manual (I had to COMPLETELY disassemble my FT K3 and reassemble it from the manual), I recall that the Front Panel (Cover) is received separately from the Front Panel PC board ASSEMBLY. So yes... you WILL have to assemble the Front Panel PC board assembly TO the Front Panel (cover)... including installation of all the knobs, etc. 73, Tom Hammond N0SS _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
