Season's greetings to all,
Well I was thinking that my building experience would be uneventful, after successful completion and testing of the basic K2, but after the installation of the SSB adapter a problem showed up: First, after installing the SSB board everything seemed fine and the Rx filters sounded fine, also did the carrier balance alignment as per the manual (using the K2 S-meter reading) which was fine too. BUT when I connected a Yaesu mic (and another one acted the same) after properly configuring the connector at the front panel board), no Tx output. The K2 goes into Tx mode, Rx muted and the power consumption goes from 240mA in Rx to 440-460mA in Tx but there is absolutely no power out when speaking on the mic at any preset power level. Activating the TUNE option does produce normal RF out just as before. Did inspect the SSB, Control and Front panel boards for soldering problems and found none. Finally did the voltage testing and it seems that most of my measured voltages on the SSB board are slightly lower than expected, for example U1pin9 on TX has 1.08V instead of 2.3V required, with other measurements being significantly lower: Rx (required) Tx (required) U1-21 5.6 (5.8) 0.1(0.02) U1-22 0.13(0.2) 0.0(0.0) U1-25 0.0(0.0) 0.65(0.8-1.2) U1-28 5.6(5.6) 5.47(2.4) !!!!! U2-5 0.47(0.6) 0.6(0.6) U2-8 5.98(6.0) 3.06(5.4) !!! U3-4 1.4(1.7) 1.7(1.7) U3-5 0.2(0.4) 0.4(0.4) U3-6 0.0(0.0) 0.6(0.8-1.2) The above are the most abnormal values, from which I have put exclamation marks at the larger discrepancy values, the first one being the AUX-BUS U1-28 pin of the microcontroller. I tend to think that there lies the sourse of the problem, but have not been able to proceed any further with my diagnostics... Saw some similar postings at the reflector which have been traced to bad solder joints or not removal of the required jumpers from the RF board before installation, but unfortunately, that does not seem to be the problem in my case... Anyone has any ideas? I do have a 40Mhz oscilloscope available, but it seems that this problem might be related to microcontroler communication rather than AF signal loss. 73, Marinos, ki4gin. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
For those of you who have helped Andy I thought I would mention the site
with his updates has moved to http://www.gm6nx.com/bbs2 for now Nothing new on it at this point just worth a mention for those of you who have bookmarked it. John (GM1BSG) _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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