Thanks Bill. No broadcast stations within many miles, and no high-power AM transmitters at all on Curacao!
No other transmitters here at PJ2T were active during my "power suck" event. 73, Jeff PJ2ND / K8ND On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:06:08 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote: If you have the ATU, it can be fooled into thinking you have a bad match by AM broadcast stations nearby. If you have a nearby broadcast transmitter, a band reject filter is one solution. 73 Bill AE6JV On 1/25/18 at 3:54 AM, [email protected] wrote: >I was running some stations on 160-meters this morning, and >noted that the power output had dropped from the amp. > >Further investigation found that the maximum power out from the >K3/100 was reduced from ~100W to about 54W, with no error >messages displayed on the K3. Advancing the 'PWR' control >beyond 54 W made no difference. I stopped operating, and found >that the power slowly restored, first to a maximum of 84W, and >then back to the normal 100W maximum. > >I assume that this is an issue with temperature? The ambient >temperature was cool (A/C running in shack). I have not noted >this problem before. > >The fan was set to 'Config > KPA3 > PA nor'. recommended setting for hard >contest use? > >73, Jeff PJ2ND / K8ND ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz |Security, like correctness, is| Periwinkle (408)356-8506 |not an add-on feature. - Attr-| 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com |ibuted to Andrew Tanenbaum | Los Gatos, CA 95032 ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
