On Dec 30, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Mike and Alicia Fanning wrote: > I have been tweaking on my K2 for the last several days trying to get > the transmit power up to snuff on 10 meters. Right now, the best I > can squeeze out is about 8.5 Watts. I'm in pretty good shape on 12 > meters, about 10 Watts there, with max output of 14 Watts on 40m. I > have rewound and elevated T2, adjusted the turns spacing on the low > pass filter toroids L21 and L22, and re-peaked the bandpass filters. > 8.5 Watts is as good as I can get. Is this typical for a K2? Is > there something else I need to be looking at?
Not typical. You should be able to get 10w out. I had limited output on 10m until I elevated T2 and re-peaked, and then didn't have a problem. Is there any chance you may have fried one of the output transistors? Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: [email protected] Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!" -- Wilbur Wright, 1901 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
