[Elecraft] OPT1 low volume

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

You said the "cans aren't shorted" to ground, or did you mean the signal
path isn't shorted? 

It's amazingly easy to use a tad too much solder on one of the crystal lead
pads, and it'll form enough of a bump under the can to short the signal path
to the can and ground. Usually that kills the output completely, but a
higher resistance short is also possible that would simply bring the signal
way down.  Check the resistance at each crystal pin to ground and make sure
the resistance is at least many megohms (should be an open circuit). 

Ron AC7AC



-----Original Message-----
I'm still trying to figure out why signals drop when I switch in OPT1 
on my newly-built SSB board for my K2/100. The static goes way down, 
but do do the voices!

Last weekend I discovered rfc2 shorting out to they can of crystal 
X7. When I rewound it that helped some.

Today I rewound T2 and that didn't make any difference at all.

I've been around once with Gary, and I think all the obvious things 
are right. The crystal cans aren't shorted to ground, the caps are 
the right values and aren't shorted by DC either, the diodes are in 
the right way and the voltage checks on the switching network are 
fine...

-- Ward