K2 rx alignment problem

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K2 rx alignment problem

nick thomas
Greetings-

I am having a problem understanding what I did wrong after I aligned the
filters in my K2 using spectrogram.

The basic problem is this; the indicated receive frequency for a cw signal
is reading 890 to 940 hertz too low. I do not even have enough RIT to make
up the difference.

I have confirmed that my transmitted signal agrees with the indicated
frequency on my VFO. So tx is confirmed transmiting at indicated frequency
on my VFO.

But for some reason the RX is way off.

What is the best course of action to tighten up the rx so that the indicated
rx frequency is again correct?

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-Nick NT1A
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Re: K2 rx alignment problem

Don Wilhelm-4
Nick,

That difference is close to twice your sidetone pitch, so I would
venture a guess that some of your CW filters are not on the correct
sideband.  Check with the K2 set to a band lower than 15 meters.  For
CW, the DAC values (and the frequencies) for the filter BFOs should all
be lower than those for CWr.  In other words, the CW filters must be
less than the filter center frequency (about 4913.6 kHz) while the CWr
frequencies must be higher.

73,
Don W3FPR

nick thomas wrote:

> Greetings-
>
> I am having a problem understanding what I did wrong after I aligned the
> filters in my K2 using spectrogram.
>
> The basic problem is this; the indicated receive frequency for a cw signal
> is reading 890 to 940 hertz too low. I do not even have enough RIT to make
> up the difference.
>
> I have confirmed that my transmitted signal agrees with the indicated
> frequency on my VFO. So tx is confirmed transmiting at indicated frequency
> on my VFO.
>
> But for some reason the RX is way off.
>
> What is the best course of action to tighten up the rx so that the indicated
> rx frequency is again correct?
>
>  
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