[Elecraft] [K2] frequency drifting

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. Werner Furlan
this morning I was trying a new antenna for portable use and therefore I turned my K2 on. When I was first listening I thought I had not connected the antenna because no sound came out of the radio. I switched it on and off and suddenly it worked. Then I listened to a station on 80m and

Re: [Elecraft] [K2] frequency drifting

2010-01-31 Thread Don Wilhelm
Werner, My best guess - a bad solder connection that responds to thermal changes. It could be either in the VFO or the BFO. The first thing to determine is which of the two is causing the drift, then track it down to the component that is causing the problem. Because it does not fail after a