Ok, gang, please ignore my previous post and rack it up to simple paranoia. I finished my 100 W stage Saturday, tried to make a few QSOs Sunday and failed during the abysmal band condx. I felt fairly sure I must've have messed up something while installing the amp. *BUT* today after work I had a solid phone QSO on 20m between here (Pennsylvania) and Texas with a fellow K2 owner, though he was on a Collins at 900 W today. We had 30 minutes with no fading and a great chat. It's likely coincidence, but he said I was the first QSO all afternoon he'd been able to maintain for more than a few minutes. I followed this up with a psk31 qso just to be sure all is well. Paranoia cured! Now...do I sell my other rig which is getting very little use since the K2 showed up?? :-/
Mike WA1SEO, maybe your experience is the same as mine - just a misinterpretation? If you have access to a scope, that would let you know for sure what's happening. Short of that, the good ol' "whistle test" to a dummy load will be helpful as well. 73, Mike AB3AP Avondale, PA On Mon 16-May-05 at 1149 EDT, Mike Markowski wrote: > > [...] SSB sounds fine on my test rcvr on 40m and > 80m, 100 W into dummy load, where I see peaks of maybe 20 to 25 W when > speaking into the mic. But on other bands I see about 2 W! [...] _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
