Well Don, I'm hoping I've found the problem. In removing the atu board as part of the strip down to check toroids etc, I noticed that the pin of P1 nearest the side of the kx1 on the atu board appeared unsoldered. In the many times I have had this unit apart I had never noticed this before. Fortunately, although many miles from home in a foreign land, I have a miniature butane powered iron in the toolkit in the car. I even found some solder! The rx sounds much livelier now and I am seeing more power output!
Thanks for the advice anyway. I probably would not have opened the radio up again to look were it not for your suggestions! 73 Stephen On Thursday, July 15, 2010, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen, > > Since the KXB3080 is already installed, check the number of turns carefully > on L1, L2 and T2 to make certain you do not have an extra turn. > T2 has 33 turns on the red winding, and L1 and L2 each need 9 turns on the > green winding (the red winding is only used on 80). All else remains the > same. > 73, > Don W3FPR > > Stephen Prior wrote: > > Many thanks Don, I shall have to wait until my return home for a scope > but I shall certainly have a close visual inspection. I should have > added however, that the radio has both the 30/80 board and the auto > atu - I don't know whether that will change your diagnosis. > > 73 Stephen > > On Thursday, July 15, 2010, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Stephen, > > While the MDS of the KX1 is not quite as good on 20 as it is on 40, there > should not be such a substantial difference. > I would first suggest that you check the oscillator injection at the mixer U6 > pin 6 on 20 meters - it must be greater than 200 mV peak to peak (70 mV RMS) > for the mixer to work at full capability. If it is low, check the 14 MHz LPF > for proper values and good soldering. Could it be that one of the tiny > inductors (L4 or L5) were "injured"? > > The next step is to measure the MDS on both 40 and 20 using the XG2 and the > method outlined in the XG2 manual. How many dB down is 20 from 40? Yes, the > KX1 is not quite a sensitive on 20 meters as it is on 40, but the 20 meter > MDS should still be respectable - and should be better than -126 dBm. > > There is another "cure", and that is to add the KXB3080. The front end of > the receiver is changed with that option and has a higher Q than the stock > KX1 front end. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > Stephen Prior wrote: > > I never had a reply to my original posting from April, so thought I > would fish for advice again..... > > What has prompted me to repost is a qso just a few minutes ago with a > GW on 20m (I'm in south-west France at the moment) where he gave me > 579 (I was running 3W) and I could barely hear him. In the end I lost > him completely. > > > Here's the original posting........ > > I have always felt that on 20m the KX-1 is much quieter in terms of > background noise compared with the 3 other bands. Having just bought a XG2 > on ebay, I have been comparing receive performance at the 1uV level between > 40m and 20m. There's no doubt that the s/n ratio on 40m is better by > several dB (not measured, so a subjective observation). > > I have checked the alignment by adjustment of the trimmers 20a and 20b and > found that the tuning was already pretty much on the nose. > > So the question is, is there anywhere else I should look? I have checked > both with and without the built-in ATU and reached the same conclusion. > > I'd be grateful for any pointers. > > Tnx and 73 > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
