Lyle & Dave, Thank you so much for your explanations.
I realize all the efforts I have put in towards my 150 meter radial field had to work in my favor. I am on the ocean and my back yard is a salt water marsh. I use the first tall tree at the marsh's edge as the support for my 160 meter inverted-L. It is electrically long and I use doorknobs at the feed point to give me a 1:1 match at 1.830. I have 60 some 130' radials laid out with 1/2 of them on the marsh and the rest on the bog beside it. I have the same kind of L attached to the radial plate for 80M and in the center of the plate is attached a butternut HF9V. The get selected via an Ameritron remote coax switch. FWIW, I do extremely well on low bands with this for I'm forever hearing in contests how powerful my signal is yet I always adhere to less than 1500W out. CW I set at around 1,100 watts out in a contest just so I know my score is guaranteed to be legit. Several days ago I worked at the K3 stated 100mw level and was amazed by how many replies I was able to get on 160M & 80M. I had started out at 5W and gotten several replies and then when I received a 579 from Wisconsin on 160, I dropped to the lowest the scale offered at 100mw and he gave me a 459. I called more CQs at 100mw and worked a NC, IA and MI back to back, to back. I wanted to go lower and try 10mw, even 1mw if possible but was not sure how to do this without possibly transmitting into the wrong output. I am on the road at the moment but will try your suggestions when I get back. Amazing what an advantageous antenna system will do. I entered the SSB contest for two hours last night just to give people some contacts/multipliers. The C6 I worked said he'd heard me earlier and took the time to tell me several sentences worth how powerful my signal was. The same for several VE stations and one from WV. I know the antenna is big in those reports but I also wonder how much using the K3 with it's compression played a part as well? Gary KA1J > > If I want to operate at say, 1 watt I believe all I have to do is > > adjust the power out and it will go from 100mw to 120W using the main > > antenna 1 or 2. > > Yes. > > > If that is true, how does one select and use less that that? > > Set up the transverter band per page 39 in the manual (latest rev D-2). > > Use the XVTR OUT connector for the Tx output. > > Be sure to run the transmit calibrations routine from the K3 Utility for > the milliwatt output. See the help in K3 Utility for details. > > If you want to force the radio to use milliwatt level output on the KXV3 > without first setting up a transverter band, then set CONFIG:KXV3 TEST. > See page 49. > 73, > > Lyle KK7P > ______________________________________________________________ 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
