Hi Folks, My K2/100 (S/N 4787) is about 10 months old. My question is at what point, or ever, should all the initial alignments be repeated? There are several reasons for asking the question other than electronic components simply drifting a bit with age.
1. Recently I've noticed when it is initially turned on the received frequency is about 100 hz high judged by the pitch of people's voices that I know. After 20-30 minutes they drift to near exact frequency. 2. When initially turned on and transmitting right away I've had reports of distortion like I'm crowding the mike. 3. When doing the initial alignment I had a terrible time with zero beating due to bad hearing. A frequncy counter finally helped solve that to some degree. 4. I did not use spectrogram as it seemed confusing and my radio seemed to play well enough without it. It is still equal to or better than my IC746Pro. 5. Several voltages and frequency ranges were slightly out of tolerance but again overall it seemed to align okay and initial performance seemed okay. 6. I'm now using the receiving antenna port and am trying to dig out DX and other weak signals. I just hate to fix it if it's not broke. But, I'm wondering if I could squeeze a little more performance out of it. I hate to have my K2 on the bench for 2-3 days and not be able to use it. Well, what does everyone say. Go for it or not? Thanks for the help and bandwidth. Jim, AB0UK K2/100 S/N 4787 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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
