Well, I got to the point of doing the alignment and getting the rig to receive on 40 meters. The last step was to calibrate the S-meter. That's when I discovered the meter wasn't working. AGC worked, meter did not. I tried redoing calibration and making sure the meter was enabled. No luck. I checked components around U2 on the control board and all was as it should be. Finally I just redid the solder joints around U2, the J connectors on the control board, RF board and also around the s-meter chip and driver chip. That did it, the meter is working fine now. I've been very careful with my solder joints, doing all my soldering under the magnifier lamp and examining each joint afterwards. Still, there were apparently some bad ones. Fortunately that is all that has been an issue so far. The rest of the tests & alignment have all been comfortably in spec the first time. Nice! First impressions of the K2 receiver - Wow, this is nice. It is definitely a quiet receiver, not adding any noise to the band that shouldn't be there. I compared it to my IC-735 backup rig and the K2 is much nicer to listen to. I'm going to like this rig. - Keith KD1E - - K2 5411 - _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
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