I am forwarding you a method to do the calibration of the 4 Mhz master
oscillator of your K2 using RWM on 9996.00 Khz.
After a nice exchange and advice from Don, W3FPR, please find enclosed the way I
used to set the 4MHz oscillator. It really works FB!!
The only you will need is to download Spectrogram (if you do not have it
already). This software is really helpful to zerobeat the carrier. You must just
prepare a cable and connector to feed the audio signal picked up from the
speaker output to the line or mike input of your sound card. So, the procedure
is as follows.
Please note that RWM transmits an unmodulated carrier during 7 minutes after the
hour and after the hour and half.
1.- Start Spectrogram and set a marker corresponding to the frequency of your ST
P (you can check that the marker is OK with the spot function).
2.- Select LSB and tune RWM. You must zerobeat the carrier.
3.- To check that the carrier has been correctly zerobeated you must switch to
CW and realise that the tone corresponds to the marker of your ST P.
4.- If the tone is not on top of the marker you can re-tune until it is (you can
then switch on SPOT to realise the beating between the carrier tone and the K2
ST).
5.- Without moving the encoder, go back to LSB.
6.- Now you must follow N6KR method. Run CAL FCTR and move the frequency probe
between TP1 and TP2. At this point you must adjust C22 until the less
significant digits are the same this will mean that the difference
TP2-TP1=9996.00.
Please note that the TP1 will change about 5 times quicker than TP2, so be
careful with C22 adjustment. You will immediately realise if you are adjusting
right or not because the difference between TP1 and TP2 either will increase or
decrease.
7.- Once C22 has been adjusted according to point 6 you must witch to 40m
connect the frequency probe to TP1 and run CAL PLL
8.- Last but not least you must run as well CAL FIL for all the filters and
modes.
9.- You can check now that the dial of your K2 is well calibrated tuning
again RWM and realising that the frequency shift is between +/-10 Hz. If it is
not you can iterate going back to point 2.
I have done the calibration of the last K2 I built using above method and it has
worked very well.
Please note tha Spectrogram is just used to check for the right zerobeat of the
carrier. It is impossible, at least for me, to detect an audio tone of 0 Hz,
while switching to CW tells you with a reasonable accuracy that you tuned RWM
correctly.
VERY IMPORTANT!!. Do not forget to switch to LSB before adjusting C22 (steps 5
and 6). If you do not so you will add the CW offset.
This method is just a light refinement of another method described by Glen
Worstell, KG0T, but the main advantage is that it is independent of the ST P
because it uses the programmed shift between LSB and CW which allows to check
that the carrier has been correctly zerobeated with the help of Spectrogram
(useful visual aid at least for me).
Please feel free to contact me whenever you may have any additional questions or
comments.
Best 72
Vicenç Llario, EA3ADV