Hi! Last weekend I completed KAT2 and KNB2 installation. KNB2 seem to work, but not yet detected any pulse noise on the bands.
Regarding KAT2 alignment. 5 W doesn't move needle too much on my Daiwa SWR/power meter, so I can't get accurate power reading for R1 adjustment. I have borrowed Heathkit Cantenna dummy load from our club. There is DC voltage available from this, but I don't have any idea how to convert it to Watts. I have looked in the internet for manual, but only found them for sale. BTW, cantenna resistor is 47 ohms measured with DMM. Should I make small dummy load from resistors similar to DL1 from Elecraft? I ordered XG1 instead of DL1. Maybe I should have read option manuals more carefully to know that I will need it too :( I did MDS measurements last night with XG1. There is small difference between ANT1 and ANT2 connectors of KAT2. ANT1 is -137 dB and ANT2 -135,7 dB. Is there some fault or is it normal? Anyway, I have made several QSOs during weekend. K2 drives my Commander amp to about 500-600 watts and it really helps in pile-ups, YI and 9M2 @ 15m. With 5 watts I got KL7 @ 20m and 4X @ 15m. I need to repair my antenna rotator, beam was pointing towards north all the time. Made also many QSOs from apartment with random wire antenna at 5-10 watts. Including couple of UA9s (closest DX fm hr) on 40 meters. 73 de Jukka, OH4MFA K2 #4293 _______________________________________________________________________ Parhaat hakupalvelut yhdessä osoitteessa: http://www.eniro.fi/ Suomalaisten yritysten tuotteet ja palvelut: http://yritykset.eniro.fi/ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft You must subscribe to post. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, Unsub etc): http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft page: http://www.elecraft.com
