[Elecraft] Now, that was stupid.... Advice?

[Stephen Prior]

Since you transmitted into the antenna tuner, is it nothing more serious
than having a lot of reflected power due to a mismatch?  In such a case we
would expect the tuner to survive that for some time.  Admittedly the K2 was
in receive mode at the time, but I would have expected the tuner components
to withstand that treatment.

73 Stephen G4SJP


On 2/1/08 10:40, "OE5CSP-Chris" <Hans-Christoph at gmx.at> wrote:

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> Well, when setting up for SKN I did a dumb thing with my K2/100. My
> rig for SKN is a 40m two-tube transmitter that puts out about 50
> watts. Somehow, I ended up connecting it to the cable that leads to
> the K2, instead of the one that leads to the antenna.
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> So, I ended up putting about 50 watts into the KAT100 antenna 1 lead.
> Most of the time, the K2 was listening on antenna 2.
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> It took me a few minutes to figure out what I had done wrong.
> Amazingly, the K2 appears to be fine, but I'll want to take it apart,
> and the KAT100 and look for any damaged components.
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> Anyone have any advice on components to check in a K2/100 and KAT100
> that have had RF fed down the wrong way?
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> I did end up with three contacts for SKN.
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> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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> Bill,
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> same thing happened to me with 100 Watts and strangely enough nothing was
> harmed, neither the KAT100 nor my K2.
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> 73,Chris-OE5CSP