[Elecraft] Spectrogram-like debugging

[Scott T Emery]

	Thank you to all who helped me with ideas on vacuum desoldering
equipment.  It appears that despite my prejudice that the all-in-one
unit, esp. the Hakko 808 is highly recommended. 


	I sent the following email to an individual, but realize now that
I should have sent it to the elecraft group instead. I mean no slight to
the individual by "forwarding" the message to the group.

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	Wow, this computer-aided radio analysis is the coolest.

	I recently built a noise source board and hooked my K2 up to
my linux box running baudline (something like spectrogram).  I am not
sure I like what I saw, but I am not confident in my understanding of
it.  The CW (RF board) filters have a pronunced image above the expected
bandpass which is only 10 to 15 db lower.  The SSB filter 1) only drops
about 40 db near 0 hz and 2) doesn't have a flat response in the pass
region, more of a pronounced "tailing off".  It sort of looks like my
nice band pass filter has been overlayed with a sloppy low pass filter.

	Of course, I haven't worked with this setup before so I suspect
everything of lying to me.  Have you heard of someone successfully using
baudline to do K2 alignment? There are a lot of virtual knobs to twiddle
on that software.

	If I haven't pulled the wrong lever, does it sound like I cooked
my crystals?  I did the base grounding mod "recently". How would I
demonstrate cooked crystals?

Scott Emery
AD6RY
emery@nas.nasa.gov