hi all, I finished a K2 ATU for a friend of me but I had major difficulties to bring the female crimp pins into the J8 housing. I used as little solder as possible (nearly nothing) but still the pins where very very tight in the holes of the jumper. From visual inspection they should be in their place now. Also the unsoldered pins in the unused holes were very hard to place. The major problem comes now: the jumper does not fit on its place on the control board, the pins don't make a smooth contact, the jumper wiggles and does not go fully on the board.
I finally gave up and manufactured a 10 wires flat computercable from my PC junk box and it works now. The disadvantage is there is no shielding in this cable. The advantage: pin 1 is marked with a red cable and the cable is much more flexible than before. Any comments on this missing shielding? when I set up and tested the ATU all seemed fine. 73! de Werner OE9FWV -- 43 of all statistics are worthless. Email powered by Pegasus Mail free at <http://www.pmail.com> Homepage: <http://www.qsl.net/oe9fwv/> Fone +43 5522 75013 Fax +43 820 555 85 2621 Mobile +43 664 6340014 Elecraft K2 #5203 _______________________________________________ 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
