Finished my K2 in the last few days and really enjoyed the build. It was
just like old times.
All bands except 12m have aligned OK...but I cannot get any more than .5W
output on 12m - no matter the C44/46 trimmer cap settings or the power
setting. And while it not fun, I pulled components C42,C43,
found not to meet the manufacturer's specs for
> capacitance range and were dropped.
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> 73,
> Don W3FPR
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> On 2/26/2017 5:41 PM, Robert Kasten wrote:
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>> Finished my K2 in the last few days and really enjoyed the build. It was
>> just like old times.
My Fluke doesn't measure caps below 100pf, so to test the K2's 12m BPF caps
(including the 1pf), I ended up getting some cheap $15 made-in-China-junk
called a "Honeytek A6013L Capacitor Tester" and assumed I would be
returning it...but I was quite pleasantly surprised at its ability to
pretty relia
Thanks for taking the time to post that, Wayne! I was a little worried we
were about to hear of the K2 going EOL.
Almost exactly a year ago I bought a K2 and have since built every option
available, and it has been a joyous experience. I just love every aspect of
the K2. It is my favorite (non-Hea
Anthony - I have been working through a K2 (with literally every option
available) project since January and am down to only one remaining option.
Apart from the incorrectly supplied 12m bandpass trimmer caps issue
mentioned a while back, I also had the 7185 waof issue you did. I ended up
removing
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