Gentlemen, I had a similar experience with my KX1. I could hear signals fine when aligning and the screwdriver was touching the trimcap, but very little as soon as I pulled it off. I didn't have desoldering equipment available and knew that I had tried to do some adjusting to my L1 so that was suspect. When I was finally able to purchase a desolderer, the first thing I did was rework the L1 connections. It has been fine ever since.
It was perplexing for a while: I didn't know if the problem was the receiver, the new antenna, or just that there were no stations on the air here. 20M is populated here, but sparsely. Most of what I hear is European. I have heard one VA3 call. I've heard Finland and Sweden both pretty well. Nobody seems to hear me at all. I'm working on locating a higher antenna site hoping to reach out better. I'm fairly limited to 12' tents (no trees). Radials and poles are out of the question due to a need for secrecy. CPT Drew Neve - 9K2/KB9LLO Battle Captain S3 ASG-Kuwait Eager to Assist Hi folks, I have resolved the "signals getting loud when I touch the board" mystery with help, but there is still something amiss. Upon further testing, the receiver appears to be profoundly deaf. It does hear some signals on 40, and even some on 20, but not nearly as well as it should. However, I have some clues here. Attaching the antenna does affect the signal level, so the receiver is, to some degree at least, seeing the antenna. Also, the receiver is detecting signals and is on frequency. It hears my signal source OK, and even the few strong external signals are perceptible, but again not nearly as strong as on other receivers here. Another point of note, the background hiss really doesn't sound like what I would expect. No static crashes, not the background noise I would expect. Just a dull hiss like you would hear when raising the volume on a PA system with no input. Another point, although seemingly unrelated, is the AF gain control gives me basically no audio until I get to about 3 o'clock. Then it gets loud very quickly. (This could be a combination of not very sensitive headphones and the audio taper characteristics of the pot, if in fact it is an audio taper.). And then just before it hits maximum clockwise position, I hear a slight "pop" and it gets noticeably louder. I do realize that I probably need more sensitive headphones/ear buds, but this would not explain all of these symptoms. _______________________________________________ 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
