[Elecraft] K2 SSB Question

Mike Markowski mm at UDel.Edu
Mon May 16 20:28:26 EDT 2005


Ok, gang, please ignore my previous post and rack it up to simple
paranoia.  I finished my 100 W stage Saturday, tried to make a few
QSOs Sunday and failed during the abysmal band condx.  I felt
fairly sure I must've have messed up something while installing the
amp.  *BUT* today after work I had a solid phone QSO on 20m between
here (Pennsylvania) and Texas with a fellow K2 owner, though he was
on a Collins at 900 W today.  We had 30 minutes with no fading and
a great chat.  It's likely coincidence, but he said I was the first
QSO all afternoon he'd been able to maintain for more than a few
minutes.  I followed this up with a psk31 qso just to be sure all
is well.  Paranoia cured!  Now...do I sell my other rig which is
getting very little use since the K2 showed up??  :-/

Mike WA1SEO, maybe your experience is the same as mine - just a
misinterpretation?  If you have access to a scope, that would
let you know for sure what's happening.  Short of that, the good
ol' "whistle test" to a dummy load will be helpful as well.

73,
Mike  AB3AP
Avondale, PA

On Mon 16-May-05 at 1149 EDT, Mike Markowski wrote:
> 
> [...] SSB sounds fine on my test rcvr on 40m and
> 80m, 100 W into dummy load, where I see peaks of maybe 20 to 25 W when
> speaking into the mic.  But on other bands I see about 2 W! [...]


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