Congrats Jim!
Also thanks for our 10 m QSO last weekend! ;-) Did you use your KX3 or
something bigger?
Wayne did a great job with the new firmware, SSB output is up to almost
3 watts now but only with COMP off. As soon as you turn COMP on output
power drops down to 1 watt again until you "turn all lights on", i.e.
push COMP to a full 30. Even then output is only 2.2 watts then. Suppose
Wayne will take a look at it again this week. Problem is it seems he
cannot reproduce it while we have 2 units here showing the same
behaviour. Doesn't make things easier but Wayne would not be Wayne if
... ;-)
73, Olli - DH8BQA
Contest, DX & radio projects: http://www.dh8bqa.de
Am 29.11.2014 22:59, schrieb Jim's Desktop:
Just finished a 15 mile CW QSO on 144 MHz using the KX3's internal 2
meter transverter. Antenna on my end was a Ringo Ranger (vertically
polarized) only 12 feet off the ground and the antenna on his end was
also a Ringo Ranger but his was on a real short (6 foot) ground
mounted mast. There is quite a bit of hilly terrain between us and
signals were only 539 both ways but with the low noise on the band
copy was real easy. We tried SSB but I don't have the latest Field
Test firmware in my KX3 and the transverter is putting out maybe a
watt on SSB. It does the full 3.0 watts on CW. Also as previously
reported, CW using the internal keyer is kind of messed up. It misses
character elements and gets choppy at times. I didn't have time to
try external keying with my bug but that will come in another test
tomorrow.
Jim - W0EB
Park City, KS
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