[Elecraft] K2 - 40m chirp

Trevor Day [email protected]
Tue Jul 2 10:17:07 2002


A very useful post Steve, thanks.  I must check mine but, to date, 
reports seem fine:)

Trev G3ZYY

In message <[email protected]>, "Steve Wilson, G3VMW" 
<[email protected]> writes
>
>I've recently built the KPA-100 PA for my K2 #1509.  Everything went
>together without too many problems and I soon had the KPA-100 bolted
>into the K2 and producing 100W of RF.
>
>On 40m, I started getting very bad keying reports - chirp and leading
>edge clicks.  I took a listen on another rig and sure enough, the K2
>sounded pretty awful.  I thought at first that it was something to do
>with the KPA-100, but it wasn't!  The basic K2 was chirpy and nasty, but
>only on 40m.  It sounded fine everywhere else, perhaps with the
>exception of 24 MHz where I noticed some very slight chirp.
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Trevor Day