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K2 No Transmit

Al Gold
I am at end of stage 3 assembly doing transmitter alignment. 40 meters and  
80 meters align okay. 10 meters, 12 meters,15 meters, 17 meters, 20 meters  
and 30 meters max out at .5 watt. The receiver pre-alignment worked fine on  
all bands. Used Hammond's signal tracing article to trace signals and all  
bands are okay. Checked K15 relay because it is common to all six of these  
bands and it seems to be working. VCO voltages check out okay on all bands.  
Filter alignment was okay. I'm stumped! Help!

Allan KB1CLB
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Re: K2 No Transmit

Don Wilhelm-4
  Allan,

Build the RF probe that came with the K2 - unless you already have one,
or have a 'scope with good frequency response (100 MHz) and a 10X probe.

Then turn the manual pages to Appendix E and do the Transmit Signal
Tracing section.  When you come to any stage in the listed process that
does not develop the expected RF voltage, stop (there is no sense in
going further) - you have found the failing stage.

Once you identify the failing stage, we may be able to help further.  
Right now all we can say is that it is somewhere in the transmit chain.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/15/2011 10:45 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> I am at end of stage 3 assembly doing transmitter alignment. 40 meters and
> 80 meters align okay. 10 meters, 12 meters,15 meters, 17 meters, 20 meters
> and 30 meters max out at .5 watt. The receiver pre-alignment worked fine on
> all bands. Used Hammond's signal tracing article to trace signals and all
> bands are okay. Checked K15 relay because it is common to all six of these
> bands and it seems to be working. VCO voltages check out okay on all bands.
> Filter alignment was okay. I'm stumped! Help!
>
> Allan KB1CLB
>
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