[Elecraft] K3 Kit Wisdom (or experience, anyway)

2014-05-04 Thread Dauer, Edward
One other tool I found essential - and I don¹t recall if anyone has mentioned this yet - is a hand-held magnifying glass with built-in illumination. There are at least two kinds of occasions when this could be important. One is those few places in which the soldered leads on a small board have to

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Kit Wisdom (or experience, anyway)

2014-05-04 Thread WILLIS COOKE via Elecraft
I would agree, but I prefer a bifocal magnifier head band with an external light.  I have two, one with an extra magnifying loop..  You definitely need some kind of magnifier unless you are very young with great eyesight or have a pet hawk or eagle to help.  Seeing eye dogs don't help much as

Re: [Elecraft] K3 Kit Wisdom (or experience, anyway)

2014-05-04 Thread Harry Yingst via Elecraft
computer to zoom in on the photos.   From: WILLIS COOKE via Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net To: Dauer, Edward eda...@law.du.edu; elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2014 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Kit Wisdom