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Re: KX1 ATU causes power to drop off...

Posted by Don Wilhelm-4 on Jun 05, 2012; 3:04am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KX1-ATU-causes-power-to-drop-off-tp7557109p7557130.html

Chuck,

That LPF is the most common downfall of the KXB3080 installation.  It is
small and quite compact, and does require a lot of careful work.

I am glad to hear your KX1 is now working OK.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/4/2012 10:48 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote:

> Fixed.
> It was a solder connection on the low pass filter board. When the ATU
> pushed a bit on the LPF board, the power took a dip.
> I re-soldered the two 2-3 junctions  on the LPF.
> The power is constant now, about 3.6 or so on 7 thru 14
> and about 4.1 on 80M with the tuner in or out.
> It was all in the LPF board...both issues. I was really
> careful with that part...but not careful enough :)
> Thanks again.
>
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