Gary:
You following this thread? This is the second (NOT counting NN0B's)
problem which may be related to KPA100 parasitics.
Tom
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Hi Rob,
Your problem sound a bit different. What was happening on
quite a few earlier KPA100's was the diodes in the switching circuit were
providing enough capacitance to cause a tuned circuit with RFC3 and that
circuit would break into oscillation and modulate the carrier with a
spurious signal. The resulting signal then had nasty sidebands and I used
to get accused of "Splatter". It used to occur at powers above about 80w.
mainly. The fix was to dampen RFC3 with a 1k resistor as well as a resistor
change in the high voltage bias supply to make sure the HV supply didn't
drop too low on demand.
The changes are outlined in the "K2/100 Manual ( Appendix G) ERRATA" rev.
C-3, December 14, 2004. ( steps 1 and 3 ) which is obtainable off the
Elecraft Web site.
Hope this helps?
Cheers.......Ron ZL1TW
At 07:20 AM 4/24/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>What are the symptoms of the oscillation? My KPA100 sometimes loses
>connectivity with the K2 and the communications between them is lost. Only
>fix is to power them both down. Don't know where to start looking for the
>problem. RFI?
>
>-rob N7QT
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron ZL1TW" <
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>>Hi,
>> Just my 2c worth......in the days before the stray oscillation that
>> occurred in *some* KPA100's was found and a fix presented, I was advised
>> by Gary to try mounting my C83 on the *TOP* of the ends of the 1 and 3
>> "winding" of T2, and it is still there lying parallel with the PC board,
>> so having it slightly off vertical in the suggested position shouldn't
>> matter a fig I imagine.
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