[Elecraft] Troubleshooting Help

Fri Mar 7 09:53:00 2003

Roy:
  Have you inadvertently changed your input antenna?  Go to the menu and 
make sure you have the right antenna input selected.

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy

--On Friday, March 7, 2003 7:10 AM -0600 Roy Vickers 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I had my K2 working well enough a couple of weeks ago to work 20 mtr cw.
> It was plenty sensitive on all bands with no problems. I added the KPA100
> this week and now 20 mtrs is high swr and very little receive signal. I
> removed the KPA100 and still no 20 mtrs. I tryed using the noise
> generator with same results until I inserted it at the 160 mtr receive
> antenna. That produced a normal output which points to the 20/30 mtr low
> pass filter circuit. I shorted k9 pins 4 & 7 together with 20 mtrs
> selected and got the same low signal with it inserted at the J4 antenna
> so that eliminated the toroids and relay. The only thing I can think of
> is a shorted C197, C199, C201 or C203. There's no solder bridges and the
> caps are the correct value.
> I replaced C197 for starters but no luck. Any other ideas guys? Sure would
> like it to work this weekend...
> Roy Vickers
> KF5YU
>
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David A. Belsley
Professor of Economics