[Elecraft] K2: CW Alignment Questions

David Woolley (E.L) forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Mon May 18 17:14:28 EDT 2009


Jon Perelstein wrote:
> When I use my (recently built) K2 for CW, I find that stations that respond
> to me are always about 100Hz too high infrequency - meaning that I have to
> use RIT to listen to them at about 100Hz lower in frequency than the
> frequency at which I'm sending.

One factor that can cause a problem is that the 4MHz oscillator 
shouldn't actually be exactly 4MHz to get exact frequency counter operation.

It's some time since I did this, but there are details in the archive, 
and probably on the web site.



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