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I just acquired a second hand K2 (my second one) and upon going thru the operation in detail I noticed that it was somewhat off frequency. WWV at 10 MHz is received best (on USB using the CW filter - there is no SSB board) at 10,000.96 MHz and adjusting C22 has no discernible effect on the beat note while listening to WWV tuned slightly off frequency. I took the control board out and saw that C22 is soldered on both sides. But the only possible cause I can think of for this behaviour is that C22 is either not making contact (bad solder joint) or is defective. Am I missing any possibilities ?
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Steve,
C22 has no effect on the received frequency or the beat note during normal operation. The setting for C22 is only used during a run of CAL PLL and CAL FIL when the frequencies (actually equivalent DAC values) are stored in EEPROM. Once that has been accomplished, the 4 MHz reference oscillator serves only as the clock for the MCU and for that function, the exact frequency is not important. If you want to do a calibration run on your K2, I suggest you review the K2 Dial Calibration article on my website www.w3fpr.com. 73, Don W3FPR On 11/6/2014 3:50 PM, Steve Kavanagh wrote: > I just acquired a second hand K2 (my second one) and upon going thru the operation in detail I noticed that it was somewhat off frequency. WWV at 10 MHz is received best (on USB using the CW filter - there is no SSB board) at 10,000.96 MHz and adjusting C22 has no discernible effect on the beat note while listening to WWV tuned slightly off frequency. I took the control board out and saw that C22 is soldered on both sides. But the only possible cause I can think of for this behaviour is that C22 is either not making contact (bad solder joint) or is defective. Am I missing any possibilities ? > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Thanks for setting me straight, Don and Mike. I think have the hang of it now...calibration is much better now - though I still may want to refine it a bit. Though, I didn't seem to be able to make the N6KR method work on WWV at 20 MHz - couldn't get a frequency match. But it's ok at 15 MHz.
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