[Elecraft] Re: RFC1 and RFC2 on KSB2

pa3gyu pa3gyu at amsat.org
Sun Jan 23 05:21:51 EST 2005


>You must have had the R-Paks tilted in toward the crystals a bit rather than
>vertical.
They are exactly straight up. I may have the crystals shifted a bit, bit no 
more than the play of their leads in the pads allow for. They are straight 
up as well.

>I just checked 2 KSB2s that I just built and there is enough
>space to slide a business card thickness easily between either the crystal
>and the RF Choke or on the R-Pak side.
Very odd, looking from my board.... They are absolutely stuck in there.

>I really can't imagine why you
>scraped the wire on the smooth crystal body (or on the R-Pak either)
I may have been unclear in my original post. The wire got scraped while 
winding the RFC, I didn't scrape it during installation.

Bart de PA3GYU



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