RE: [Elecraft] Re: Transmitter alignment

2007-02-01 Thread Don Wilhelm
Jeff, You may be chasing a 'ghost' - in other words, that 'short' to ground may be present at DC but not at RF. Remember that the relays latch, and the armature will be connected to pin 7 for the band that has last been selected. Going further on that vein the relays shown on the left of the LPF

[Elecraft] Re: Transmitter alignment

2007-02-01 Thread Jeff Kinzli
A little more info... Charles, N3EJS, was nice enough to point out to me that my strange resistor values of R67 and R68 sounded like they were in parallel, and had a hunch that pin 7 of the relays was probably shorting to ground. Checking this, and Charles was right on the money (thanks, Charles

[Elecraft] Re: Transmitter alignment

2007-02-01 Thread Jeff Kinzli
Alright, a little bit of an update on my problem... Gary at Elecraft gave me a list of voltages to check upon TX. Unfortunately, my scope is old and I couldn't get it to play fair, so the only thing I could really measure were DC voltages with my VOM. I'll probably go ahead and start putting th

[Elecraft] Re: Transmitter alignment

2007-01-31 Thread Jeff Kinzli
Oh, and I have checked, and C167 is indeed installed. :) On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:45:54PM -0500, Jeff Kinzli wrote: > So, I'm finally getting to the transmitter alignment section on K2 #5945. > > With a dummy load, I set power on 40M to 2W, and go into tune mode. I can > never get more than ab