Re: [Elecraft] TUNE before power?

2010-07-04 Thread Ramon Tristani
Don: I finally got hold of a dummy load and performed the procedure with the K3 Utility. It is working perfectly well now. Many thanks! Thanks go to W7IJ also for pointing me in the right direction to buy the K3 in the first place. Ramon On Jun 27, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:

[Elecraft] TUNE before power?

2010-06-27 Thread Ramon Tristani
I just finished building the K3 and everything seems to be working just fine except that after changing bands I need to push and hold the TUNE button in order for the radio to transmit to full power. It is as if I had to prime the radio to enable full power output. I do not have the Auto Tuner

Re: [Elecraft] TUNE before power?

2010-06-27 Thread Don Wilhelm
Ramon, I suggest that you calibrate the wattmeter, and then use K3 Utility to calibrate the transmit gain. Yes, you can do the TX Gain calibration by the manual, but the K3 Utility does it automatically - just sit back and watch as ot changes bands osn goes through the calibration procedure