From my experience Don is correct that a failure of the KPA3A will cause distortion. Mine failed twice and was replaced by Elecraft.
The best description of the failure is “fuzzy audio”. I don’t recall the output was showing less than 100 watts. Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 6, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rich, > > Well, since the KPA100 is an option for the K2 (and not for any other > transceiver), I did not make a typo. > Since you have the K3S, the 100 watt amplifier is the KPA3. > That is why one has to be careful when specifying designations of options. > > As I recall, that distorted audio on the K3S is a symptom of a failure in the > LPA on the RF Board. Contact [email protected] to get some points to > check. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > >> On 4/6/2020 1:43 PM, Rich wrote: >> Just to make sure that was a typo you said K2?? >> >> I did your test on my K3S and I am getting about 55 watts on the meter >> >> Any other ideas? >> >> Thank you so much >> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
