I also just caused this anomaly by first slightly adjusting the K3 power output. First character again sent the KPA 500 to 700 watts. I'm going to see if I can find an accurate watt meter and see if I can see something on the K3 output. KC9EE
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 12:01 PM, Tom Doligalski<[email protected]> wrote: I’ve never seen this on my K3/PKA500/KAT500 setup. Just went back into the check, and all is normal! 73 Tom W4KX > On Jan 12, 2020, at 12:32 PM, Gary Hunt via Elecraft > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just started noticing that occasionally the first character sent on CW will > peg the watt meter on the KPA500. It does not fault. Sometimes a QSY to a > different band or even a different band segment will trigger it again, > sometimes not. Both of my antennas require my KAT500 which seems to have > found acceptable matches for both antennas on the appropriate bands. It just > uses a previous found solution when QSYing. Trying to determine which piece > of equipment might have an issue. Planning on sending the K3 in for a check > up but was hoping to have a K4 here first. > Any thoughts? > 73, Gary KC9EE > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
