[Elecraft] Power Question for the Experts!

2014-02-24 Thread Lee Buller
This weekend, I participated in NAQP RTTY.  I noticed when I went to a new bandthat the RTTY power (100 watts) was at 50 watts on the watt meter...but after two or three times of calling cq...the power would be back to 100 watts.  The band did not matter, it did this consistently on all

Re: [Elecraft] Power Question for the Experts!

2014-02-24 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
Yes, this is a bug introduced by the recent firmware that reduces the ALC update rate in RTTY (FSK). I complained of it during the beta but it was not addressed prior to releasing that fix in the public firmware. The solution is to briefly hit TUNE when changing bands to allow the ALC to set