Since you transmitted into the antenna tuner, is it nothing more serious than having a lot of reflected power due to a mismatch? In such a case we would expect the tuner to survive that for some time. Admittedly the K2 was in receive mode at the time, but I would have expected the tuner components to withstand that treatment.
73 Stephen G4SJP On 2/1/08 10:40, "OE5CSP-Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Well, when setting up for SKN I did a dumb thing with my K2/100. My > rig for SKN is a 40m two-tube transmitter that puts out about 50 > watts. Somehow, I ended up connecting it to the cable that leads to > the K2, instead of the one that leads to the antenna. > > So, I ended up putting about 50 watts into the KAT100 antenna 1 lead. > Most of the time, the K2 was listening on antenna 2. > > It took me a few minutes to figure out what I had done wrong. > Amazingly, the K2 appears to be fine, but I'll want to take it apart, > and the KAT100 and look for any damaged components. > > Anyone have any advice on components to check in a K2/100 and KAT100 > that have had RF fed down the wrong way? > > I did end up with three contacts for SKN. > > Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Bill, > > same thing happened to me with 100 Watts and strangely enough nothing was > harmed, neither the KAT100 nor my K2. > > > 73,Chris-OE5CSP _______________________________________________ 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
