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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:23:13 -0800
From: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] On the Air!

Paul Hendershott wrote:
> 
> Hi All!
> K2 #2278 finally hit the air tonight! The receiver seems HOT! Sent a few
> unanswered CQ's, but no reply( probably because I never used iambic
> paddles or a keyer before AND you could tell!<g>). may have a minor
> gremlin with the bar-graph meter - only the highest bar lights up and
> moves around correctly with various signal strengths and ambient noise
> levels....


Hi Paul,

Congratulations on getting your K2 on the air!

As for your bar-graph problem: you may have the wrong value RPACK
installed at RP2 (Front Panel). It should be 120 ohms; if you swapped it
with the 100 k RPACK (RP1), the switches will work but you won't see LED
segments 1-9. Another (remote) possibility is that U4 is in backwards,
but is nonetheless able to drive one LED by virtue of some mysterious
variant on its normal logic diagram. If these don't pan out, you can
probably find the cause using the Front-Panel DC voltage chart in
Appendix E. 

Have fun--

Wayne
N6KR

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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:07:48 -0500
From: "Arlan Levitan" <w8ow at arrl.net>
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] On the Air!

Paul

There are two modes for the S-meter: DOT and BAR

What you describe is normal if your K2's GRPH mode is set for DOT.

Use the menu system to set GRPH to BAR and the segments to the left should
lite up also.

I prefer DOT myself.

73
ARLAN W8OW

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