[Elecraft] K2 Transmitter Alignment - A layman's perspective

2010-09-09 Thread Don Herring
OK, after reading a good number of post on aligning the K2 transmitter, and adding my own observations, I think I finally have my head around the process. I don't know that this has been summarized in a single post, and the intent of this post is to verify what I think I now know, plus provide

Re: [Elecraft] K2 Transmitter Alignment - A layman's perspective

2010-09-09 Thread Don Wilhelm
Don, Your analysis is right on. The only thing I can add is that *if* during the tuning process, the output power rises significantly (let's say to greater than 5 watts), there is a possibility that you will not be able to discern the peak because the RF Gain of the transmit stages may hit