I'm -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave (NK7Z) Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 9:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Running high power
Al, Are you by chance running an end fed antenna? 73, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) https://www.nk7z.net ARRL Volunteer Examiner ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources On 11/23/22 05:59, Wes wrote: > I run a KPA500 all of the time; essentially, I run a 500W transceiver. > I have never had an issue as you describe. The only chokes in the > shack are the ones molded onto the various computer cables that come with > them. > > Outside, I use a homebrew W2DU type balun (sorry Jim) at the feedpoint > of my 40-80M inverted-vee and a commercial sleeve balun on my little > triband beam. BTW, both of these antennas are used off-resonance, > tuned with a KPA500 in the shack for WARC bands. According to > conventional wisdom, I do everything wrong. Grounding and bonding is a > combination of single-point and daisy-chain. I don't have pounds of > ferrite on every wire, I use a switch mode power supply for all of the > low voltage stuff and a Rigrunner distribution box. And the whole > station runs on a 120V 20A circuit. > > I suspect that you have a rectifying joint some place. > > Wes N7WS > > On 11/22/2022 3:36 PM, Al Lorona wrote: >> I'm really curious to ask those on this list who run high power: >> >> Do you find that you get into all kinds of devices around the house? >> >> I ran the KPA-500 in an extended manner for really the first time >> during the Phone SS and immediately: >> >> 1/ interfered with FM broadcast radio. >> >> 2/ caused the internet to drop out every time I keyed up on the lower >> bands. >> >> Am I the only one? Those of you who run high power all the time... >> how do you deal with these annoyances? >> >> Al W6LX/4 >> ___________________ > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
