[Elecraft] General Trasverter Operation Question

[Sanger, Joseph]

I am using a cross-needle, MFJ tuner in between my XV-50 and antenna.
The interaction between the tune and transverter is confusing me a bit
and I was wondering if someone could educate me as to what is going on?

 

I set my transverter output power to something around 20 watts, as
measured on the XV-50 LED display ... then put K2 into tune mode ... and
then adjust the controls on the tuner to minimize the reflected power
and maximize the forward  power, which has the effect of minimizing the
SWR (indicated by the crossover poinit of the two needle indicators).
At least, that is what I think I am supposed to do.  But as I do this,
as I lower the SWR indicator on the tuner, the power output on the XV50
goes up into the red zone, lighting up all of the LED's on the front
panel.  This worries me, and I then back off the power control on the K2
until I am back to 20 watts or so as measured by the XV-50 display.

 

Am I on the right track here?  Or am I doing something stupid?

 

Thanks in advance to the kind soul who may take the time to straighten
me out!

 

-- WB2SSB

 


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