[Elecraft] #3716 Here

[Masleid, Michael A.]

Hello Terry,

>Upon reassembling the boards and powering up the rig
>to perform the Part II tests, I noticed that I now get a constant =
S-Meter
>reading of about a 5 on all bands with no antenna.  It may vary =
slightly,
>but it's pretty much a solid 5 bars on the LED meter for the most part.
>Last I remembered when I aligned the S Meter, I had no LED bars lit in =
the
>powered up but standby mode and RF gain at a max.  Was that because I =
didn't
>really have a "receiver" at that point?  Or, is there a problem.

ITS ALIVE!  You're doing fine.  You didn't have AGC until U12 was =
installed.
Now the S meter has something to measure.  You're mostly hearing the =
noise
generated by Q21, Q22, and the IF amplifier.  You also have enough stuff
loaded to receive signals on 40 meters.  Nothing will make much sense =
though,
until you finish the calibration steps in Part II.  You can adjust CAL S
to fix up the LED meter readings to something more useful.

The weak signal at 7 MHz is cleverly provided by the K2 as a test =
signal.=20

>Maybe the
>K2 doesn't align per the book if it is built with the SSB adapter =
installed
>earlier?  But, I could envision a point in the construction manual that
>would say "If you already have it and plan to use it, build and install =
the
>SSB adapter now".

There's just more things that can go wrong with the adapter installed.
This makes it hard to write a good trouble shooting procedure.  You will
find instructions to install some of the parts of the SSB adapter while
building the K2 however.

I still haven't built my SSB adapter.  I'm still learning how to use =
some
of the neat CW features.

73, Michael, AG9GV