[Elecraft] Is this normal?

Stephen W. Kercel kercel1 at suscom-maine.net
Sun Mar 12 00:48:30 EST 2006


Fellow Elecrafters:

Overall, my new K2 is performing wonderfully.

However, I notice that if I set the requested power to some nominal 
level (typically 5 watts) the indicated power often creeps up to 
maybe 6 or 7 bars, under normal keying (typically 20 wpm). If I go to 
TUNE, the power will start to creep up almost immediately from 5 to 
maybe 6.5 Watts. I usually do not stay in TUNE mode for more than a second.

This happens with both a matched antenna (I use a tuner and an 
antenna analyzer, and get very close to SWR = 1, before I switch the 
K2 into the circuit) or a dummy load.

Is this normal?

Also, when I'm in TUNE mode several numbers are displayed. The first 
one looks like the power level. What do the numbers after the power level mean?

Thanks and 73,

Steve
AA4AK




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