Thanks for the suggestions. I followed them all. I
found some 27 AWG red enamel wire and re-wound RFC1
2, and I believe this is what fixed my problem. The
enamel on the wire that came with the KSB2 kit, seemed
to shear off with the sharp edges of the toroid cores,
and this may have been
Andrew,
Plug the KSB2 in again and be certain that it is properly positioned on the
headers. It is easy to misplug the KSB2 - if you see the standoff and TP2
properly aligned with the holes in the SSB board, it probably is mounted
correctly.
As a check (but not a permanent fix) slide a small
Andrew Meier wrote:
I
noticed when I jiggle around RFC2 I get some noise in
the receiver, and those little RFC1 2 toroids on the
KSB board were a challenge to wind, so I'm wondering
if I have a problem there.
Be sure to check for PTTL (Poorly Tinned Toroid Leads).
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno
The problem is that the receiver became very quiet. I
could still hear the strongest signals if I turn the
AF Gain way up, and instead of S9 on the meter,
they're way down to S1. The KSB2 manual specifically
states (page 15, final step of initial test) this
should not happen, and if it does,
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