[Elecraft] new K2 rx audio problem figured out

[Ross Primrose]

Sounds like you left out a couple of washers that should have given you 
the proper spacing with the original standoffs...

73, Ross N4RP

On 5/9/2015 10:43 AM, Kevin Hulina wrote:
> I finally figured out why i wasn't getting rx audio on my newly built 
> K2.  I would take it apart, and it would work when I was 
> troubleshooting it.  Put it back together and I had no rx audio. So, I 
> started putting it together 1 screw at a time and found the point 
> where I lost rx audio.  U6 on the control board was coming into 
> contact with the board for the vfo encoder.  When i would take the 
> screws out of the control board, it would let it away from the front 
> board enough for it to work.  I cut down a couple standoffs to be 
> about 1/16" longer than the stock ones with the kit and it holds the 
> control board off just enough to no longer cause a problem.
> I sent this to Elecraft support as well.  Maybe something very minor 
> changed with one of the components nearby that is causing one of the 
> boards to sit ever so slightly different.
> Now I can get back to trying to tune it up!
>
> W9KH
> Kevin
>
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