[Elecraft] Low SSB drive on K2

Sun Dec 14 10:53:00 2003

Ron,

You may be on to something....

Before I read your message I was able to occasionaly hit 100 watts on a
whistle, but rarely. Maybe my coffee was extra "special" this morning and I
got more stuff :)

But still it does not drive well even at SSBA setting 3.  A normal "hello
radio" might get between 10 and 15 real watts on the external meter while
the internal shows between 70 and 100. Definitly not 15.

In CW the meters are similar. If anything the external shows slightly
higher.But it is hard to be exact since this K2 has the normal power out
fluctuation where the output jumps around !!

73,

Rich
kd0zv

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 11:38 PM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Low SSB drive on K2

> Rich, what does the K2 output power meter say? The bargraph is a peak
> reading device in RF mode.
>
> It may be wrong for some reason, but the K2 uses the indicated power
output
> to control the RF power output, so when the built-in RF meter says you
have
> reached full output, that's all you are going to get, no matter what it
is.
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
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