[Elecraft] K2 murdered

2013-07-29 Thread Hans Elfelt Bonnesen
During heavy lightning in the evening I switched all antennas to ground. Next morning I forgot and started to transmit into a grounded antenna (sic) It appears the transmitter is now gone dead. Admission: I murdered it myself. Where do I start to look. - When transmitting into a dummy load the

Re: [Elecraft] K2 murdered

2013-07-29 Thread Don Wilhelm
Hans, It is strange that you have an indication of power output when transmitting into a dummy load, but not into an antenna. Is this a QRP K2 or do you have the KPA100 installed? My responses will be different depending on the answer to that question. Do you have the KAT2? Or the KAT100.

Re: [Elecraft] K2 murdered

2013-07-29 Thread Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy
Hello Hans, Sorry to hear about your problem. When transmitting inot a 50 ohm dummy load, I would suggest that you first measure the RF power actually reaching the dummy load in case the RF/ALC indicator is misbehaving. If you do not have a RF Power Meter (Inline type), then a diode