Hi Pete, You are working much too hard. I designed the XG1 for Elecraft and if you send it to me, I'll repair it for you.
73, Bob, N6CM On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Pete Smith <pete.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regrettably (hi), the emitter resistor is fine - very close to > nominal. wish I had a crystal to substitute, but I don't, so maybe I need > to get one from Elecraft - or just hang up the whole thing and get an XG-2. > > Thanks for thinking about this, Don. I hope people don't mind my > continuing this on the list - I thought the archive might be useful to > someone facing the same problem later on. > > 73, Pete N4ZR > > At 09:28 AM 1/30/2009, Don Wilhelm wrote: >>Pete, >> >>Have you measured the emitter resistor (R2)? I would suspect that more >>than the crystal. >>Since you do suspect the crystal, do you have any other crystal that you >>can substitute for it - it can be any fundamental crystal somewhere >>between 3.5 MHz and 15 MHz as long as you have a receiver that can hear >>it to evaluate the result. >> >>73, >>Don W3FPR >> >>Pete Smith wrote: >> > I lifted one leg of C4, the output coupling cap, and took a look at the >> > signal level at the collector of the transistor oscillator. It is very, >> > very low. Is it possible that the RF surge somehow damaged the >> > crystal? I'm running out of components to replace here! >> > >> > 73, Pete >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ >>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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
