I've noticed some weirdness with transmitting on higher bands on my elecraft.
Down on 40, and 80, its great. When I transmit the RF meetings goes almost all the way the up. My w2 responds and shows a good output as well. However on 20, 15, 17, the RF meter won't even get over 50, it shows maybe 1 or 2 bars at peak. Now my SWR on 20 is 1.6 so I assume that it will put out less power but not that big of a loss. I also get a "hi Curr" on 20 when i hold down the xmit/tune button and transmit that way, even though I am putting 14.5 v into the k3. It shows 12.6v during transmit. I do show the meter as showing it drawing almost 23 amp during transmit on 20, the rest of the bands are about 14amp. Again these readings are measured when i hold down the XMIT button. On 10m i get a 1:1 swr match, and it does the same thing, barely no RF output. So I am not convinced its a SWR match thing. Have I missed a setting somewhere? Somewhere that I have to turn this up. I have the PWR turned up to 110. Anyone have any ideas? ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
