Joe, Are you using the TUNE button when you make those measurements, or are you doing CW and send 3 or 4 dots to assist in leveling the power and then measure during a key-down period. There is a difference. The K2 must have a bit of output before the power levels out. With TUNE, there are no breaks to level out the power and you get whatever came up when the button was pressed - that will be close, but try 3 or 4 dots of keying before measuring and I believe you will find the power much closer and less erratic.
If the power does not then follow the power requested knob, tweak the KAT2 forward power pot a bit - that is the indication of power output that is being fed back to the K2 microprocessor. 73, Don W3FPR Joe Planisky wrote: > I recently decided to give my K2 (#3490) a tune-up. I hadn't done any > alignment on it since I built it in June of 2003. Realigning the > bandpass filters produced a noticeable improvement in receive > performance. I have the KAT2 antenna tuner option in it, so I re-did > the bridge null and power calibration adjustments. > > However, now I notice that the power output as indicated in the > forward reading in "ATU Pout" mode is sometimes quite far off of the > power set with the POWER control. For example: > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
