You may or may not consider this logical, but: The description of the transmitter gain calibration procedure in the manual does not call up any special calibration menu. It just says transmit a carrier at exactly 5.0 watts or exactly 50 watts. Apparently the firmware uses these power level settings as a trigger to do a gain calibration.
Not wanting to do unexpected gain calibrations while operating, I have always set my power to 4.9 watts when I want to operate QRP, and to 49 watts if I want to operate at 50 watts. I am fairly sure I saw a post here by one of the elecraft techs about this not so very long ago. 73, Rich VE3KI N7WS wrote: It is not in the manual, but has appeared here many times, without logical explanation. Wes N7WS On 1/16/2022 6:52 AM, j...@kk9a.com wrote: > I have not heard this either. Is this in the manual? 5 watts would be a > tough output to avoid if you enjoy QRP. > > John KK9A > > KE8G wrote: > > Hmm, I've never heard that 5 or 50 watts of power shouldn't be run. > > 73 de KE8G - Jim > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
