Fwd: [Elecraft] K2 Problems

Kevin Cozens [email protected]
Sun May 26 15:09:01 2002


At 11:44 AM 05/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>You get 15W out on ALL bands?? What is your secret, Bob? I raised T2 
>>above the board by the thickness of some perf board material (approx. 
>>1/16"). This increased my power out on 10m from about 9.5w to about 10.5w.
>
>Sometimes all it takes is careful alignment.
>
>Try re-peaking (for max. output) on each band, using about 1W output.

I'll check it again. However, I aligned the bandpass filters using transmit 
mode with an external analog watt meter. This allowed me to see smaller 
changes in the power output levels than would be shown via the metering 
built-in to the K2.


Cheers!

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

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