You sure it's 15 watts? The service manual on repeater-builder specifies it's a 12 watt repeater http://www.repeater-builder.com/standard/standard-index.html Add in the duplexer, cables, age, possible tuning out of it's designed 450-470 range and you get about 8 watts.
Aisen Lopez wrote: > Hello, I've got a Standard RP-70U UHF repeater that is not > transmitting at full capacity. > > The thing is supposed to have a max RX power of 15 watts. Yet, I > plugged a power/swr meter and my dummy load, when I checked it was > only putting out 7 watts. So I looked in the manual, found the > adjustment points and tried to adjust for maximum power and it won't > go over 8 to 8.5 watts of TX power. It doesn't seem to be having any > problems with the duplexer. It just won't go over 8 watts. Could it > be a failing TX transistor?. RX is fine and there are no other > problems with the repeater, just the power issue. > > Any thoughts? > > > > >
