Congratulations David, For those of us who build, there is nothing quite like the thrill of seeing something we have built come to life for the first time! I hope to hear you on the air.
73, Dave, K4TO K2 and KX3 owner On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:45 AM aj4tf <[email protected]> wrote: > With some assistance from Don, W3FPR, K2 # 7841 assembly has been completed > successfully. > > I found that the J310 FETs that came with the kit were slightly too slow to > make the synthesizer operate. Apparently this is an issue with the latest > batch of J310s. There's a couple of solutions for this: (1) install a 10 > pF cap between the source and ground of Q19 or (2) use a different J310. > I > tried both solutions, they both worked. In the end I elected to source > some > J310s from kitsandparts.com which were an older vintage, and it worked > fine > without the extra capacitor. > > I also found that the trimmer caps for the 10m/12m bandpass filter (C44, > C46) were very touchy; I thought for a while that 12 meter TX was not > working, but I finally got them tuned up so that I had good output power on > 12m. > > I built # 7006 about 9 years ago (which is still working well), and was > really wanting to do another one, so I went ahead and ordered it while we > still can. > > 73, David AJ4TF > > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
