[Elecraft] S-Meter Calibration

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Hi Tom!

Yes, the AGC MUST be ON. The "S" meter is really just reading the AGC
voltage developed.=20

Still, you may find your S-meter to be too "scotch". I "adjusted" mine =
long
ago by tuning in a signal I decided sounded about "S9" by ear, and then
adjusting the "high" setting for S9. The 'meter' now agrees with me more
often than not, which is about all I can say for most of the "S-meters" =
I've
had in receivers over the past half century.=20

Elecraft recently released a little signal generator kit that they have =
set
up for you to use for a variety of tests, including one to calibrate =
your
S-meter against a fairly well-accepted standard level.=20

So far, I've resisted buying one. After all, if it causes me to change =
my
S-meter setting very much, I have a 50-50 chance that it'll be telling =
me
that I'm deaf. At the very least it'll tell me that my signal reports =
have
been off for half a century.=20

Who wants to discover that??=20

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
...The S-Meter on my K2 (s/n 1103) seems to not be very sensitive.  When =
I
receive, what I perceive to be very strong signals, I am only getting =
about
two or three of the LED's lit.  I've calibrated the SLO and SHI (I think
that is the setting on the menu) several times yet I'm still getting the
same results.

Perhaps I am not setting some  of the other setting properly...the only
thing that I am doing is making sure the RF gain is full clockwise.  =
Should
I also be concerned with some of the other setting (I usually don't have =
the
"atten" on) - how about the AGC, does that have any effect?

This isn't effecting the  receivers ability to receive, just the s-meter
reading.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks
Tom McCulloch
WB2QDG
k2 1103