Are you measuring the power right at the TX connector, or are you measuring at the duplexer output (antenna) connector? The specified RF output of any transmitter is normally that measured at the output connector of the transmitter, not after the duplexer.
73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY -----Original Message----- > 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?
