HI Don, Thanks for the reply. OK, now the radio is perfect. I did decide to take it all apart once again, and I had checked everything except for the front side of the panel board. I do hate to put those knobs back on with the semi-stripped allen wrench holes. Anyway I did it, and was poking around and noted that the jumper that goes under the R4 pot really didn't look too good. I had used a piece of solid bus wire and some clear heat shrink tubing for insulation. I took it off and replaced it with a piece of 22 gauge stranded wire, the type you see at the front of the PCs for hooking up the idiot lights. This time I wrapped the wire over the top of R4 and R3. This way the minimum length possible of the wire is in a tight area. I put it all together and the thing works like a Rolls Royce.
Now I've got the perfect radio. I am so happy with this rig. Its worth $12K to me. Thanks again, Steve, W2MY Corpus Christi PS: Apparently Corpus Christi, and one small part of the gulf coast in Florida were the only areas not touched, on the Gulf, by hurricanes last year. All the hospitals and EOCs down here suddenly are trying to put together ham radio stations as an alternate means of communication to satisfy FEMAs new requirements. I have been helping with spec'ing out equipment and am amazed at the high cost of halfway decent HF transceivers that don't come close to the K2's performance. Does anyone know of any EOCs out there that are using K2s for their HF needs? -----Original Message--------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Yes that does sound suspiciously like a missed or bad solder connection. 73, Don W3FPR -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release Date: 4/27/2006 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
