[Elecraft] KX1 #112 - It's Alive!

[Ken Alexander]

I'm pleased to announce that KX1 #112 came to life earlier this evening!

This was a fun project!  Construction went without a hitch and 112 passed 
all tests along the way.  However, output into a dummy load is only 2.5 
watts on both 40 and 20 metres.  This was measured with a new wattmeter 
which doesn't have a track record on my bench.  So, it's possible that I'm 
getting proper output but it's being lost within the +/- 10% of full scale 
accuracy of the meter.  I wish I knew.

Anyway, toroidal inductors and transformer were double checked, R4 is all 
the way up and the DC voltages on Q1, Q4, Q5 and Q6 all checked out fine.  
I'm prepared to try the recommended signal tracing exercise.  Will the 
simple build-it-yourself RF probe that's usually shown in the ARRL Handbook 
suffice for this?

Any other suggestions or recommendation would be greatly appreciated.

73 and thanks,

Ken Alexander - VE3HLS
Newmarket, ON

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