[Elecraft] [K2] Very Low SSB on 20 Meters

[James Doty]

Those are excellent suggestions, especially about trying USB on another
band.  That hadn't even occurred to me.  Thank you, I'll try your
suggestions.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Don Wilhelm wrote:

> James,
>
> There is no band dependency on the KSB2 option board, if it works on one 
> band, it will work on other bands.  Although it could be a LSB is OK, but USB 
> is not - try it on 17 meter SSB.  Try it on 17 meter SSB.
>
> Try a Direct Frequency Entry to anywhere in the 20 meter band to be certain 
> one of your FD "friends" did not tune the VFO from one band to another 
> without using the band buttons.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 7/25/2019 12:29 PM, James Doty wrote:
>> Hi all:
>> 
>> I didn't build my K2, I bought it second hand in excellent condition a
>> few years ago and really love it.
>> 
>> My K2 came with all the trimmings, Jessie (KB7PSG) and I added a 6 meter
>> transverter plus the 60 meter transverter and until recently everything
>> worked fine.
>> 
>> During Field Day this year I was working 20 watts SSB and noticed I had
>> almost no output power, I switched to an old Alinco we have as a backup
>> radio.
>> 
>> After Field Day we set my radio back up on my desk and it was working
>> great.  I figured bad connection, at least at first.  I was working 40
>> meters no problem, but when I switched to 20 meters, again almost no
>> output power.
>> 
>> I played with all the bands I have antennas for and found that from 6 to
>> 80 meters, 80 being marginal for my antennas, everything was good except
>> 20 meters.
>> 
>> The problem doesn't affect CW at all on any band so I figured it has to be
>> a problem on the SSB board, but I don't know where to look.
>> 
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