I am in the process of getting familiar with my newly acquired KX3 purchased for POTA and am enjoying it immensely.
I am powering it with a 14.8V, high quality, Yamaha walwart - very little internal noise. Settings indicated in the VFO B display area using DISP are normal. When I set the PWR level to 10 watts and then key the xmtr, the power immediately drops to 5 watts. With the key down, I am monitoring the VFO B display which indicates a drop from 14.8V to 10+V and 1+A. That makes it 10W. If so, why does the reading when I push in PWR drop to 5W? Is that ‘input’ power vs ‘output’ power, ie, 50% efficiency? If that is true, how does one achieve and maintain 10W of output power? Any help would be most appreciated. Feel free to RSVP here or call if you like - or send me your number and I’ll call you! Tnx es 73, David, NS4V David R. Hourdequin, PE 828-421-6216 [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]
