[Elecraft] K2 - Poor Audio Reports

Steve Ellington n4lq at carolina.rr.com
Sat Feb 27 23:40:38 EST 2010


Logic tells me to first hook the K2 to a dummy load and listen to yourself 
in another receiver. That should tell you a lot.

Steve
N4LQ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Heinsohn" <kd0r at fhrd.net>
To: "Elecraft_List" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:09 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 - Poor Audio Reports


> On 160 mtrs, SSB as I move up the band I begin to get poor audio reports
> at about 1.900mhz.  The tuner is showing less than a 2:1 swr at that
> point and I retune often as I move up.  The antenna is a dipole centered
> on 1.825mhz.  Other than adding a shorter element to the dipole, any
> ideas what I need to do to fix the problem?  Any ideas why I'm getting
> the poor audio reports?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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