The only time I've ever gotten a HI TEMP warning was running WSPR at about 0.1 watt. Go figure.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 3:50 PM Mike Parkes <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been experimenting with WSPR mode at 2-10 milliwatts of power out as > measured by the WM-2 wattmeter. I notice that the back of the KX3 heat > sinks are still fairly warm to the touch at such low power. It surprises me > that the finals would still get that warm at this level of power out. Is > that normal? I don't want to damage the radio tryin mg to xmt very low > power! :)... I have nothing to compare to except it feels at least as warm > as it did at 1 or 2 watts out. (I am using the power level output from > WSJT-X to set the power out to levels lower than what the KX3 can show > which is limited to 100 mW.) > Mike AB7RU > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] > -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ 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]
