You might want to contact Elecraft for a different variable inductor or crystal for the XV144. I had the same problem months back, and they discovered that they were shipping the wrong xtal for the 144. 73 Colin VE3MSC
At 08:21 AM 2011-08-28, David Heinsohn wrote: >Hello All > > I use a K2 and have XV50 and 144. The XV50 seems to be working just >fine. However the 144 seems to have a problem. I live far enough away >from other operators and had a poor enough antenna that I've not been >able to find a test horse to talk to on two ssb or cw. finally made >that happen last week. What I found was that the transverter seemed to >be working. Receive performance is not as good as I think it should be >(I changed out the loop antenna for an eleven element beam fix pointed >at the metro area about 100 miles away). I need to run with the preamp >on, rf and af gains all the way up to hear BIG stations at 100 miles in >good conditions. And even more worrying is that, based on several >stations reports my dial reads 12.4 khz high. > > From what I can see in the manual there is no alignment for frequency >readout as such and the adjustment available from the TRN menu is only >10 khz. > > In checking the K2 against WWV it seems to be within well less than >100 hz. > > Suggestions? > >TNX >de >David > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3862 - Release Date: 08/27/11 > >______________________________________________________________ >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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
