Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB adapter problems

2020-01-14 Thread Don Wilhelm
Chuck, L34 must have been far out to do that. It is connected right where the IF OUT signal is fed to the AGC, so it must have formed a resonance with C179 which increased the input to the AGC and desensed the receiver. Did you use Spectrogram to adjust L34? It is easily done in CW mode -

Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB adapter problems

2020-01-14 Thread myflyertra...@cfl.rr.com
Don, I downloaded the software, and found I could get my SSB OPT1 filter looking great until I turned on the AGC in USB! Well I did solve it. It was a poorly aligned L34 causing the problem. I had read on this list that L34 was very broad and did not do much. Not at all true! Now turning AGC o

Re: [Elecraft] K2 SSB adapter problems

2020-01-14 Thread Don Wilhelm
Chuck, Your guess that the BFO is positioned inside the filter passbaad is likely correct. Do you have the SSB FL1 filter set to OP1? If not, try that first. Many times the filter on the RF Board (used for more narrow filter settings) becomes VERY wide - much wider than indicated by the K2.