With the help of Gary, AB7MY, of Elecraft, and Don, W3FPR, of this list, I've just resolved the most crazy problem of my nearly 50 year ham career. About a month ago, I decided to upgrade my K2/10 (#337) to a K2/100. After inquiring here about how the KPA100+KAT100 in an EC2 enclosure might work (the answer was "very well"), a list participant offered his already built KPA100+KAT100+EC2 to me and I accepted. Then I needed to complete the a-to-b upgrade of my K2 that I had only done part of before. After that I discovered that when using the KPA100, I had all sorts of weird RF-related symptoms that I'd never experienced before. I then did all the KPA100 upgrades that Elecraft recommends, with no change in the problems. Then I began e-mailing with Gary and Don and they gave me lots of advice, most of which I followed, with no change to the problem. I'll spare you the details, but will mention that one thing I played with a good bit was the length of my 450 ohm feedine to my inverted vee dipole. None of that helped. A couple of days ago, I e-mailed Gary that I was ready to give up. He encouraged me to hang in there, and then yesterday suggested that I just try adding some coax between the KAT100 and the BL2 balun that I use. I grabbed a random piece of RG-58 with connectors on it - about 6' worth - and plugged it in. Voila! Problem solved! After all the stuff I tried, I'm floored that the problem was resolved by such a simple change!! I guess its a kind of mojo!!
Anyway, thanks to Gary and Don for not letting me give up, and for having the patience and persistence to keep suggesting stuff to try! This is one of the reasons I stick with Elecraft!!! We're extremely lucky to have these guys out there! 73, Randy, KS4L ______________________________________________________________ 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 hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
