[Elecraft] K2 weird problem

Gregg mulder wb8lzg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 30 18:40:49 EST 2006


First I'd like to thank all of u guys fer pitching in to help me with this problem. That said, hereis an update. Power out set to 5w, CW mode. K2 works fine with no SSB brd intstalled. When SSB brd in,  on CW xmit, the bar graph reads no power, the power out at the ant reads abt 10 w, high current alarm comes on when xmitting.Problem is no longer intermittent, there all the time. Have replaced (new parts) Q1, Q2 , Q3 , D1, D2 ,D3, D5, es C36 on ssb brd. Appears to be somthing related to Q1, With Q1 remmoved, rig seems to xmit OK, Tryed removing D2, but that does not help. Haven't had my mic today so can't try Peter's suggestion  of measuring voltages while in ssb mode.Should I  be looking on another brd for somthing feeding the ALC circuitry ? i'm going to replace C19, C38, R4,es R9 on ssb brd tonight.                           73  Gregg


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