[Elecraft] Odd power problem?

[Dan Barker]

My first suspicion would be the test setup. How are you measuring power?
What supply voltage? What's it drop to on Key down or Voice Peaks? What's
the current Tx? What's the load?

Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456

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Subject: [Elecraft] Odd power problem?


Just finished the conversion of my K2 to a K2/100. On SSB, power
seems quite robust, with my wattmeter showing 70~80 watts on voice
peaks (I would have expected about 40~50). On CW, I'm only getting
about 40~50 watts dead key (I would have expected 100). It seems
like this is backwards from every radio I've ever owned, and I can most
certainly live with this. I got every upgrade available (resistors,
caps, etc.)
before starting the build so all parts/firmware are current as of July
2005.
I really don't want to go back inside since everything else is performing
quite flawlessly. But in the event I ever have to go back inside in the
future for another reason, what should I look at as the culprit?

Thanks, -KR4WM

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