I'm working on the RF board and I've reached the first chance to do resistance checks in the manual and I have some questions and one major concern.
There are a few checks that when I first touch the meter to it will flash a few ohms and within a second go to the desired value. For example (from PG 29): With the meters negitave lead on the ground near J7, P1 pin 8 reads about 150 ohms (it varies slightly from test to test) for less than a second then goes over 100k ohms U3 pin 3 shows 46 with the VOM set to 200K. I really don't know what that means, I'm thinking that is 46,000 ohms, which is less than 200k U3 pin 5 is shows 20 with the VOM set to 20K, again, I'm assuming that is 20k, which is greater than 10k Now for my major concern, U4 pin 4 reads only 0.4 ohms - I think I have a problem here, but I have no idea what it could be, the manual said it should be > 50k. The schematic seems to show it as a ground. I'm glad I started with a K1 - I don't think I was really ready for it. I can't even figure out how to read my VOM (although I'm going to go practice on some known value resistors while waiting for replies to this e-mail). Still, when I get this radio to work, I'm sure going to enjoy making QSOs. Then comes the K3 but I also hope to build a K2 down the road as well. Thanks & 73 de Joseph Durnal NE3R _______________________________________________ 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
