Kit Re-assurance
kit means that it must be assembled by the customer From time to time I get emails from customers or prospective customers about a kit. Usually it's something along the lines of: "will this kit work with my rig ?" And I usually try to answer promptly with an informative email. First a disclaimer is included if I have no first hand experience with the equipment in question. For example, I've never used an amplifier on HF so I'll mention this when fielding a tube amp / rig compatibility question for the Keyall HV. I recently heard from a buyer of the original Keyall. I wasn't sure if he had already been using the Keyall but he wanted to know if it would work with a solid state Kenwood rig and a Yaesu FL2100b amplifier. I downloaded the manual for the Yaesu and saw that it used grid-block keying - the two amplifier tube grids were biased with a negative voltage which appeared to be less than the absolute value of -25 volts since that was the rating on the