You said the "cans aren't shorted" to ground, or did you mean the signal path isn't shorted?
It's amazingly easy to use a tad too much solder on one of the crystal lead pads, and it'll form enough of a bump under the can to short the signal path to the can and ground. Usually that kills the output completely, but a higher resistance short is also possible that would simply bring the signal way down. Check the resistance at each crystal pin to ground and make sure the resistance is at least many megohms (should be an open circuit). Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- I'm still trying to figure out why signals drop when I switch in OPT1 on my newly-built SSB board for my K2/100. The static goes way down, but do do the voices! Last weekend I discovered rfc2 shorting out to they can of crystal X7. When I rewound it that helped some. Today I rewound T2 and that didn't make any difference at all. I've been around once with Gary, and I think all the obvious things are right. The crystal cans aren't shorted to ground, the caps are the right values and aren't shorted by DC either, the diodes are in the right way and the voltage checks on the switching network are fine... -- Ward _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
