Ok. You’re right. Must have had my mind on something else. Read too many emails.
Merry Christmas. Or you know, whatever?!! Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Dec 12, 2018, at 9:11 PM, Peter Dougherty (W2IRT) <[email protected]> wrote: > > This happened to me at the start of CQWW-SSB in October. My K3s is finally > enroute back home after a 6 week stay in the Elecraft Repair Department with > a blown FET in the HPA, cause unknown. And I know I've been told I'm not the > only one to suffer this failure, and it sounds like this is now a known > issue. > > Does anybody have an idea as to what could be causing these FETs to fail, or > steps to consider to lessen the chances of it happening? I can't speak for > anybody else, but I baby the heck out of my gear and was shocked to discover > it failed, when feeding directly into a KPA-1500. > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Regards, > Peter Dougherty, W2IRT > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wes Stewart > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 4:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Suddenly Putting Out Only 25 watts at 100 watts > indicated > > If you have another receiver, run a two-test and listen to the K3 output in a > narrow BW. Ideally, the two tones will be considerably stronger than the > first > pair of sidebands. > > I suspect they won't be, you'll have a lot more than two and you have a blown > FET in the HPA. > > Wes N7WS > > >> On 12/12/2018 12:47 PM, N4ZR wrote: >> Transmitted on my K3 for the first time since the 10-meter contest, and it >> is >> only showing 25 watts out on the built-in meter into a dummy load. Power >> output setting of the K3 is 100W, and same results seen on all bands. What >> could possibly be going on here? Back to Watsonville? >> >> The cruel karma of it all is that *yesterday* I ordered a KPA-1500. >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
