Don,
This brings up something I've wondered about. If the K3 will not
transmit out of the ham bands, how do you get the autotuner to align
the impedance match for optimal out-of-band swl? It has to be that
it will output slightly when "tune" is pressed, just enough for the
autotuner to read the forward and reversed power and make its
decisions. Not so? Is that what it does?
73,
Oliver Johns
W6ODJ
On 4 Mar 2008, at 2:30 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
Bill,
The "END" message indicates that you have reached the END of the band.
The K2 is limited so it cannot be used to transmit in the CB band
(clearly not legal), so you will encounter just what you saw if you
try it.
As a sidenote, questions are often asked about the END message with
the KX1 - because of the general coverage aspects of the KX1, it is
easy to tune out of the ham band, so users encounter that message
frequently - often when they have listened to WWV at 10 MHz and
then try to transmit.
73,
Don W3FPR
Bill Coleman N2BC wrote:
Bear with me, this is strange.... K2 / 06254 built last Fall
A few days ago I fixed a problem on my K2 (low output on
15/12/10). Yesterday I finished a complete alignment and today
reinstalled the KPA100.
So... its lashed to a dummy load and I'm stepping through the
bands to make sure the KPA100 is happy. I get to 12M and the VFO
happens to be set to 25000.00, I tap the key. No output and I get
an "END" message on the display.
Move the VFO to inside the band, no more "END" message but still
no output. Change the power level - now there is normal output!
In fact, if I recreate the setup (freq to 25000.00 or higher, tap
the key, get "END"), then change to any other band - there is no
output until I change the power setting.
I couldn't find this mentioned in any of the archives. Is the
firmware getting confused or do I have a unique gremlin? The only
reference to the "END" msg I can find in the book is CAL PLL.
It's working 100% otherwise. Would appreciate it if somebody else
would give this a try!
THX & 73, Bill N2BC
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