[Elecraft] K2 complete

[Robert MacKenzie]

  K2 #5216 is finished an on the air, with one contact so far on 20m. It will take a little getting use to how it operates. It's a pleasure to have a CW filter after the FT817's wide-open band pass.
    There appears to be very little power on the high bands (less than a watt on 10 and 12, Not much better on 15m). 80 meters and 40m are not the best either, with lower power than expected and some variation i noutput between keydown attempts. Only 20 and 30 appear to match the Power level indicated and what is actually put out to the MFJ ATU/pwr meter. The receiver seems OK on all bands.
    I assume that this is an alignment problem or some parts are not installed right. I'll call Elecraft next week to see what can be done. During the alignment (with the DL1 and Ngen) the power was very low on the high bands (0.5 W) and on other bands it would often read 8 watts when the tune function was on. That made it hard to align the transmitter with the DVM on the DL1. The NGen was great for alignment and I hated to disturb the settings during subsequent  transmitter alignment. I'll download the Spectrogram for later use.
    Does this situation sound 'normal' for first-time usage?
Bob VA3RKM (Ottawa)