Thanks Guy,
I checked my connector and in fact tried two other coax leads - all with
the same result.
73, George W5AGK
On 7/3/2016 1:05 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
May not apply in your case, but male BNC connectors can sometimes have
the center pin retracted a bit. This can cause the connection to just
barely fail in some female connectors and not in others.
PROVE that external connections are not the problem before tearing
apart the rig or sending it back to Elecraft.
25:1 SWR means no connection on center pin somewhere very close.
73, Guy K2AV
On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:51 PM, George King <[email protected]> wrote:
I just received my KX2 and really like it. I have the ATU and battery
installed. Receive works fine, but I cannot transmit. When I press PTT I
get several beeps and in some cases the radio shuts off. Sometimes I get a
Hi CUR message. Here is some data:
7.213 MHz, Voltage 11.7, Power set at 8 watts. When I press ATU to
tune the tuner works hard and displays 25.4 - 1 while trying to tune and
never changes. Is this telling me the SWR is 25.4:1? The antenna SWR
checked at the BNC connector on the antenna at the radio with an MFJ 259B is
1.3:1
7.285 MHz, Voltage 11.7, Power 8 watts, SWR checked with MFJ 259B is
2.0:1. Same result when I press ATU.
When I bypass the ATU I still get the same result except that I do not see
the 25.4 - 1 display.
Also, same result on all other bands. I installed the side panels before I
tried to transmit. I thought maybe I had a bad antenna connection. A check
with an ohm meter shows a good connection between the BNC connector and the
antenna connection on the ATU board.
I checked the connector from the ATU to the RF board and it seems to be
mated properly. I tried transmitting into a 50 ohm dummy load with the same
result. I made a jumper cable with a BNC connect on it and connected it to
the ATU bypassing the installed BNC connector - same result.
SN is 463, just installed firmware 2.66. Did not try to transmit before
upgrading to 2.66 or installing the side panels. Seems to me I have a bad
antenna connection somewhere. Does this make sense?
Any help will be appreciated.
George King W5AGK
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