Building a K1, thought I was on the home stretch, but I've hit a snag. I was on the transmitter alignment section, page 19 of the K-4 additional manual, and all went well for 10 Mhz and 7 Mhz. I switched to 21 Mhz and didn't get the two watts out, but got P0.1 (like the first steps of the Alignment and Test, Part II on page 46 of the K-1 manual when the filter board is not installed). It didn't vary, just P0.1.
I checked the "out" menu setting and it had 2.0 watts. I switched bands back to 7 Mhz, and now it only has 0.1 Watt output for tune no matter the "out" menu setting; the same for 10 Mhz. All frequencies appear to be within the allowed band (didn't move the VFO knob from the starting mid position during this time). Left it to start typing this question, wanted to go back and look at exactly what the display read and all bands but 21 Mhz would now output okay -- 21 Mhz still just P0.1. I went ahead and completed the tune-up, skipping 21 Mhz (but starting with the 21 Mhz caps for 14 Mhz) -- wanted to try the radio out and will be using it on 40 meters for now. Finished the work (speaker, etc) and hooked the rig up through a tuner to a dipole tossed into a couple of trees and, for the first time in 26 years for me, made a contact (my code skills, even with some practice recently, are woefully rusty). After the QSO I did some cleanup and rearranging (included unplugging the K1), then brought it back up to try for a second contact; back to no output, if I go into tune I get P0.1 on screen, if I try and transmit, no power out. Any insight would be appreciated; probably (hopefully) something simple I'm missing. First contact was a thrill, hope to get the second before another 26 years go by. :) Thanks for any help, Rick N4YQP ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
