[Elecraft] All working :-)

[W3FPR - Don Wilhelm]

Glad you found it Ian.

That again substantiates the advuse to builders who encounter a problem - 
check soldering, and then re-check soldering.  Then when you have finished, 
check the soldering!!!  Remember, the circuits do work as designed and 
component failure is rare.

73,
Don W3FPR

----- Original Message ----- 

> Hi all,
> I finally fixed the problems I was having on the 160m alignment.  I
> could not get 10W no matter how I tried.  Thanks go to Don, W3FPR and
> Bob, G3VVT for their ideas.  In the end, I did not seem to be getting
> any joy when tuning L3 and L4.  L4 I could peak but nothing seemed to be
> happening with L3 so I took the heatsink off (yet again!).
> Would you believe the fault had been there since I built the rig and I
> had never noticed up to this point.  On terminal of L3 was not
> soldered.  It must have been making a little on the through plating.
> Once soldered I now could tune properly on 160m :-)
> Lots of learning learnt!
>