[Elecraft] KPA100 SSB power control

Trevor Smithers tsmithers at cix.co.uk
Sat Mar 3 08:21:00 EST 2007


I have just installed a recently constructed KPA100 (including the latest upgrades) 
and appear to have run into the erratic power control problem.

Using Tune + Display and an external LP100 meter, if I request 5w I get 5w out. 
Increasing power to 11w so as to engage the pa I also get 11w out - so all seems 
fine.

Switching to SSB, and speaking steadily into the mic, at a requested 5w I get 
approximately 5-7w out on each band.
However increasing the power to 11w I get the following:

80m  Req 11  Get 45
40m  Req 11  Get 80
20m  Req 11  Get 25
15m  Req 11  Get 30
10m  Req 11  Get 20

Reading back through the archive I see that others have encountered the same 
problem but cannot see a definitive answer to the problem. Anyone have any 
thoughts as to where to start looking.

73 to all
Trevor  G0KTN


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