I just discovered that the behavior described below only occurs at turn-on.
Changing to ALC display causes results in normal control of power level as
described but if I then switch back to RF display then power control
*remains* normal. Only when I turn the rig off and back on again does the
power go out of control.
Don K7FJ
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I almost never use SSB mode so have a lot still to discover about my K2 in
ssb mode.
I was on 40 meters ssb last night at 20 watts or so and found that the rig
kept rebooting. It was caused by an output that was actually well over
100 watts.
Later, connected to a dummy load and monitoring output with a scope across
the load I found that.
1 The rig always turns on with the metering set to RF mode ... just as
the manual says.
2 With the metering in RF mode the power is not controlled at all. No
matter where the power level is set (11 to 100 watts with the KPA100
engaged) the output peaks at over 100 watts. When I switch the bar
display to ALC the output is controlled as I would expect ... at whatever
the power has been set to.
3 CW mode is normal.
I had thought that ALC would be active and in control even when the
metering is set to display power instead of ALC level but that does not
seem to be the case.
I'm using an Icom IC-HM7 mobile mike (amplified). It seems to have about
the right amount of output because, at low power settings, the ALC display
shows a *lot* of ALC (all bars lit most of the time) but at 100 watts the
ALC display barely flickers which indicates that the mic barely has enough
output to drive the rig to 100 watts.
Don K7FJ
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