So, I was running WSPR last night at 0.1w during a rain storm. While in the middle of a transmit cycle, an out-of-the-blue lightning strike happened in our neighborhood; no warning, no indications of impending t-storms, nothing.
The K3 is a K3/100 with the KAT3, KDVR3, KRX3 and KBPF3. The K3 still receives just fine, but when I go to transmit, there is no power output when testing into a dummy load. Actually, that isn't quite true. The ATU will still tune, putting out 5 watts based upon the RF meter in the K3, but does not return a SWR reading when it does so. Furthermore, in CW mode I can transmit and get the power to about 5w when the transmitter is set to 10w; and I can set it for a setting below 5w and it seems to work, but if I go above 12w (turning on the KPA3), then the power indicator drops and shows less than 1w indicating (to me) a problem with the KPA3 components. I've reloaded the firmware, hoping against hope, with no change. I would welcome any advice/guidance for things to check. In the meantime, I've diving back into the manuals. Dave K3DCW "Real radio bounces off the sky" ______________________________________________________________ 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
