[Elecraft] KAT2 Problem

John Porter jjbbl2 at cableone.net
Sun May 8 20:33:01 EDT 2005


Good Evening men/ladies,
   I recently completed K2, #4799. Everything worked without any big 
problems. I completed all of the alignment and was really very 
satisfied. I thought I'd go ahead with the KAT2 and then finish the 
other options a little later. I got it built and installed and was 
almost to the end of  the Power Calibration section, when things went 
south. I had  DL1 connected to ANT1 and was doing the math and watching 
the LCD . It was reading just a few tenths volt different. I decided to 
check the WM-2 while I was at it before going off to bed. I connected 
the DL1 to the WM-2 and then it to the back ot the top cover. I placed 
the rig into TUNE and saw nothing on the WM-2 or LCD. Hockey!
   I had inadvertently connected the WM-2 to ANT2. The total time the 
rig was in TUNE while I wiggled and jiggled cables was probably 10-15 
seconds. I lost output on the tuner. I  went back to the rig's ANT out 
and checked for output. I still have it there.
 I checked all voltages and they are right on (bottom page 22 , KAT2 
manual). I checked D1-2 out of circuit and they're ok. I touched up T1 
connections. I  used the RF probe and detected very little with P6 
connected. There really isn't that much on the board to check, but it 
sure ain't working! I knew better than to keep playing when I had the 
thing licked !
   Anybody got any ideas? I'll continue to plug away and pull ends of 
the few resistors before calling it a night.

Thanks,
John, KD5EJA, K1  #679, KX-1 #479, K2 #4799



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