[Elecraft] K2 #2555 on air! couple of questions...

[Kevin Cozens]

At 09:39 AM 04/22/2002 -0700, Andreas wrote:
>3. Alignment in transceive vs. receive mode
>
>The band-pass filters are shared between transceive and receive.  Does
>it matter whether I align those using the transmitter alignment steps or
>the receiver alignment steps?  I was thinking of using a signal
>generator in conjunction with Spectrogram; it sounds like I would be
>able to align the band-passes during receive more accurately, right?

If you are talking about the inductor and capacitor pairs in the corner of 
the RF board near the CW key jack, its up to you. In my case I used 
transmitter alignment with the antenna output fed through a dual SWR meter 
(showing forward and reflected power) and in to a dummy load.

I adjusted the coils and capacitors as per the manuals for maximum power 
output according to the external SWR meter. The external meter made it 
easier to see small changes/improvements in power out than the K2 was able 
to provide.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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