I was operating in the ARRL-CW contest this morning and on 20m, with a 1.2:1 SWR on the Yagi, all of a sudden I saw my power drop to about 450-500W with about 40W in. Worked a few stations but not as easily as when I turned everything on this morning. Switched over to phone and made a few contacts. Audio is fine barefoot with 100W out of the K3s-which suffered blown finals itself during CQWW SSB last fall, but with the amp in I got reports that my audio was badly distorted.
Before I send it in, is there anything I should look at or any diagnostics I can easily perform? For the cost of this, I'd have thought protection would have kicked in to prevent anything untoward from happening. I'm in complete disbelief, to be honest. --------------------------------------------- 73 and Good DX Peter, W2IRT ______________________________________________________________ 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]
