Re: [Elecraft] K2 filter alignment question

2010-04-18 Thread Bill Coleman
On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:44 AM, lstavenhagen wrote: Reason I ask is I decided to revisit my filter alignment (partly for an educational exercise to learn how this all works) and after fighting with a spectrum analyzer (iSpectrum on the mac, which just got me way off each time) I abandoned ship

Re: [Elecraft] K2 filter alignment question

2010-03-20 Thread lstavenhagen
Hi Don, Yeah, I've actually discovered that this is not very effective for the wider filter bandwidths such as in SSB. I got them spot on in CW with the narrower widths I use (1.40, .700, .400, .200) but in SSB I can't find the midpoint very well at all. I've decided, tho, to leave my K2 as-is

Re: [Elecraft] K2 filter alignment question

2010-03-19 Thread Don Wilhelm
LS, That method works, but it suffers from the fact that finding the actual filter center frequency is difficult to do. As the filter width is changed, the lower and upper skirts do not change at the same rate - that is the main problem. Yes, you are correct that in 1999 tapping the

[Elecraft] K2 filter alignment question

2010-03-18 Thread lstavenhagen
Hi all, Not meaning to add to the wealth of info already on this topic, but I have a specific question about the setting up your CW filters for the tonally challenged article on the elecraft website. Specifically, part of the instructions in it to read the BFO frequencies after audibly finding