Jim, It certainly sounds like you got it fixed even if you don't know why - congratulations.
You can likely improve the 20 meter output by spreading the green winding on the LPF inductors a bit, and 80 meters may improve by squeezing the red turns a bit. 30 meters will normally have more output than the other bands. Enjoy your trip. 73, Don W3FPR > -----Original Message----- > > I did check transmit into a dummy load and here's what I get on > my OHR WM-2 > 80 meters: 2 watts > 40 meters: 3.5 watts > 30 meters: 5.0 watts > 20 meters: 3.2 watts > > battery voltage shows 14.1 volts > > Interestingly, the same setup showed 5 watts out on both 40 and > 20 prior to > the KXB3080 installation. > > And, as I was typing this, I decided to hook back up the antenna and see > what I heard. Well, signals were booming in on 80. Went to each band in > turn and was able to successfully peak the 40, 30, and 20 meter filters. > > So, what did I do? Don't really know. Other than going over everything > about 10 times (no kidding) and scraping gently at 2 solder > points that may > (emphasize may) have been shorting. They didn't really look like > they were, > but there was some flux and it was shiny in the light, so I scraped a > little between them. Don't even remember which ones they were. But, they > were in the L6 and R1 part of the KX1 board and prolly one of the > resoldered parts or very close to one. > > I'll complete the reassembly. I planned on taking this on a trip > to TX this > week and was sweating not having it done in time. Hopefully I won't undo > what I did do. > > Thanks to everyone for putting up with the bandwidth! > > Many thanks and 72 to Don. At least having some plan of action kept me > going when I might have just given up til I got back from my trip! > > Jim, WD9HBC > _______________________________________________ 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 Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
