Good Evening Folks,
The two nets went pretty well. Twenty was much like it was yesterday.
We did benefit from a couple of relays from the KX1 folks. Thank you Ray
and Rick. There were times when signals were bouncing right over Tom and
I. I had to relay to Tom once when he did not hear
Try taking a big fat toroid from somewhere and looping your coax
through that about 15 times at the antenna end and see how that works
for you. Alternately, put a bunch of clip-on beads on the coax at the
antenna end and try that. Alternately, try lengthening the antenna on
the 'hot' side as th
Indy wrote:
I want to use my Elecraft BL-1 1:1 balun on field day.
The balun would serve as center insulator, but the coax line plugged
into it is a phasing line.
Here is my question: Will the windings on the balun, introduced
between the antenna and the phasing line, effectively increase the
Paul,
A balun may or may not help. and in any case, a balun or no balun is not the
answer to your situation - the 20 ft of coax is acting like an impedance
transformer, and without a thorough analysis of your antenna and feedline
system, it is difficult to say what would help. Perhaps some
experi
Sjoerd,
Why not drill the lower rear panel for the RCA jacks? The drilling template
is included with the K60XV instructions - or you can order a new (already
drilled) rear panel/heat sink from Elecraft.
The RCA jacks are adequate and reliable at the power levels of the added
transverter outputs
Well, disregard the last post. I found a viewer that let me use this laptop
to see what I had in the camera. Trip report is posted here:
http://www.ae5x.com/qrpttf2006.htm
John AE5X
Portable QRP: http://www.ae5x.com
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Glad to hear that it was that easy.
73,
Don W3FPR
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Don,
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. You hit it right on the head. C73 is
a marked as a 471. Thank you!
John [K7SVV]
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John,
All bands look OK except 40, 30 and 15 meters. So the PLL is working, and
the VCO is working.
That would i
I have a K2/100 serial number 5020 loaded with most all options and many
"extras". It looks as new and works well with a couple exceptions from my
viewpoint which I describe below. I recently bought it from the original
builder and he did a wonderful job building it. I am selling it because I
wan
John,
All bands look OK except 40, 30 and 15 meters. So the PLL is working, and the
VCO is working.
That would indicate that you most likely have something wrong in the VFO Range
selection area - either a relay or a capacitor. Check C73 first because it is
common to all the failing bands and
I have FS a very nice basic K2. It was my main station rig up until last
Friday.
I replaced it with a new K2. It has all of the connectors for accessories
already
installed. All you have to do to install your accessories is to remove a few
jumpers. It works great and I have never had any pro
John,
One should do CAL PLL first and then do CAL FIL, but your 40 meter problem will
prevent you from doing CAL PLL anyway - see your query about that for more help.
73,
Don W3FPR
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Don,
That may be part of the problem. I did the CAL FIL and then the CAL
PLL failed. Since I had just started setting this up I felt I wouldn't lose
much by powering up with 4, 5, and 6 depressed abd haven't gone back to do
it again. This may be why the frequency doesn't change (no lookup t
Everything was normal until I got to "VCO Alignment" in part 2. Prior to
filling out the "VCO Voltage Readings" table, I was told to change bands to
80 meters and set the VFO to 4000 kHz and to adjust L30 for 6 volts at R30.
Everything was great. Adjusting L30 felt good and lots of range but when
Carel,
You8 did not specify, so I must ask -- did you alos do CAL FIL before you
checked the result. It is necessary that you do both CAL PLL and CAL FIL
(for each BFO) after adjusting the refcerence oscillator.
73,
Don W3FPR
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> Seems that something strange is goin
I'm just now back in OKC and had a great time during TTF. It was an
educational experience and I have a list of "what not to do next times" as
long as your arm. The KX1 performed admirably but I have mixed feelings
about my antenna - weak reports from some stations who I copied 579 yet I
was called
Thanks to all who responded to my question.
Seems that something strange is going on with my K2 (-:
Reading through the responses it strengthened my feeling I did the procedure
(as described by Wayne, n6kr getting an exact difference of 10.000 MHz
between tp1 and tp2) correct. But my readout i
Carel
My K2 showed a +5 Hz and -30 Hz error after alignment, there's a table
of the errors halfway down the page at:
http://www.astromag.co.uk/k2/
As others have said, the design limits the absolute accuracy of the K2's
frequency setting.
73 Dave, G4AON
K2 #1892
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Carel
If you listen to WWV, or some other equally accurate signal, with
no modulation, just pure carrier, you should be right on 10.000 IF
you are zero beat with your SPOT tone in CW, or are zero beat in
SSB mode. It is easiest to check for zero beat in ssb by switching
back and forth between LSB
Carel asked:
What should the readout on the K2 displaying, If I had a carrier at 10.000
MHz and tune it in CW, USB and LSB to have it at 600 Hz tone (equal to my
spot tone) ?
10.000 MHz in each case, if everything was perfect, and you are not trying
to get a 600 Hz b
Will sell above radio for $900. It has the SSB, noise blanker, and DSP
options and a KAT100-1 antenna tuner. All works well.
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Struggling to get the freq readout of my k2 correct (using various methods
as described on w3fpr's website).
Now I am doubting everything (including myself..) so, but to be sure..
What should the readout on the K2 displaying, If I had a carrier at 10.000
MHz and tune it in CW, USB and LSB t
Ron,
Certainly we can help - the LO BATT indication is a sure sign that you
accidently bumped the switch on the of the Control Board - at the top just
to the right of center. Just change the switch to the 'INT' position - easy
fix.
This is a common occurrance with older K2s, and was such a bothe
Ron
Check the position of the slide switch.
It gets moved sometimes and the voltmeter
disappears.
Good luck and 73
Bob N6WG
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Lads,
I have one of the field test K2s (SN 79, current 2.04 firmware) that
I've recently added a KIO2 board to. To do this I needed to perform
the mods for the XC control board to make it compatible with the KIO
2 (which I have done). This included cutting one trace to the MCU
pin 25, a
Fred,
Answer to 1: The exact position will vary with the precise value of the
fixed capacitors in the bandpass filter - there will be some variation due
to component tolerances. It is sufficient to say that the slugs on all the
cans should be nearer the top rather than screwed down near the botto
My '06 QRPTTF start time was foiled by last minute manditory meeting.
Finally at 3PM I was faced with pack up gear & goats and head for the
hills (~2-3hrs to launch RF) OR stay home and set up outside (~20m to
launch RF!) Doh!
So me and 'boys' setup shop at base of my tower.The boys (goats)
mille
We're feeling good about K2 # 5422 operation - it
seems to receive well, on a good day on the ham bands.
I've
gone over the "Transmitter Alignment" page 77 several
times. And we have an analog-meter MFJ AT on order.
I'm wondering if I haven't gotten some of the
variable-L's, like L3, L4, ..,
Hey Chris -
Where are you? If you're in town, I probably have what you need. If
not, pretty much any cap that will fit the available space, even if it
is hanging by it's leads, will work for the time being until you can get
the right part. Performance might not be optimum, but anything is
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