[Elecraft] K2 murdered

[Don Wilhelm]

Hans,

It is strange that you have an indication of power output when 
transmitting into a dummy load, but not into an antenna.
Is this a QRP K2 or do you have the KPA100 installed?  My responses will 
be different depending on the answer to that question.
Do you have the KAT2?  Or the KAT100.

A few more measurements may be required.
Have you put an in-line wattmeter between the K2 and the dummy load?  Do 
you get the same power into the antenna as ino the dummy load.
On the assumption that the lightning may have damaged something in your 
antenna system, I would suggest using an antenna analyzer to measure the 
antennas at the desired frequency of operation.  It might not be a K2 
problem at all.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 7/29/2013 5:01 AM, Hans Elfelt Bonnesen wrote:
> During heavy lightning in the evening  I switched all antennas to ground.
> Next morning I forgot and started to transmit into a grounded antenna (sic)
> It appears the transmitter is now gone dead. Admission: I murdered it myself.
> Where do I start to look. - When "transmitting" into a dummy load the RF/ALC indicator
> shows that all is normal.
> I's not. Unfortunately.
>
> Remorsefully yours
>
> OZ5RB, Hans
>