[Elecraft] K2 Transmitter Alignment - A layman's perspective

2010-09-09 Thread Don Herring
f I am off base in any way, please point this out. 73 Don Herring W4DHH __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list h

Re: [Elecraft] K2: Is Inventory really a necessity?

2010-07-18 Thread Don Herring
I just completed my K2, and I inventoried the components for each board as I progressed through the kit. To echo others, the inventory does help you organize and recognize the components. And yes, I did discover a couple of missing components for the RF board. However, they were not needed until

Re: [Elecraft] K2 S-Meter LED Question (Alignment and Test Part II)

2010-07-03 Thread Don Herring
Turned out to be that I had the graph in dot mode Thanks Don W4DHH --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Don Wilhelm wrote: From: Don Wilhelm Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 S-Meter LED Question (Alignment and Test Part II) To: "Don Herring" Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Thursday, July 1, 201

[Elecraft] K2: Z1 and Z1 bead question

2010-07-03 Thread Don Herring
How tight to the beads for Z1/Z2 need to be? Do they need to be stationary against the board?   Or will they be moving around a bit? Thanks Don W4DHH __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

[Elecraft] K2 S-Meter LED Question (Alignment and Test Part II)

2010-07-01 Thread Don Herring
Greetings. My other e-mail addy doesn't appear to be working, so I'll try another.. I'm at the Alignment and Test Part II of my K2 build, and everything appears to be well with specs. I've completed the process through the BFO Test, and have stopped at the BFO alignment (was getting late

Re: [Elecraft] K1 issue on 20M (not crystal related)

2009-07-14 Thread Don Herring
ave a signal generator for 15 meters, use another ham > transmitter transmitting at low power into a dummy load and connect a > short antenna wire to the K1 - place the wire near the dummy load. > > After aligning 15 meters, try aligning 20 meters again. > > 73, > Don W3FPR

[Elecraft] K1 issue on 20M (not crystal related)

2009-07-12 Thread Don Herring
Greetings I'm a newbie building a K1-4. Everything was going OK until the receiver alignment phase of the build where I ran into a problem where I could not hear anything on 20M. After searching the list and several exchanges with Elecraft support, I had not gotten anywhere in resolving the p