[Elecraft] K2/100 - Power investigation

[David Wilburn]

With the DL1, when you do the calculation to get the power level, what 
do you measure with?  V-AC or V-DC?


Dave Wilburn
K4DGW
K2/100 - S/N 5982


David Wilburn wrote:
> After trying unsuccessfully to get email to take data in tabs, I ended 
> up just putting the information on my website.  Sorry for the trouble.
> 
> I was playing with an assortment of power meters, and noticed my K2 was 
> reading lower than I expected.  The closes things I had to a gauge, was 
> an IC-703+ that had just been to the shop, and repaired, thus I felt it 
> was likely to be putting out 10w.
> 
> When I compared a Bird 43 with an element I picked up on line, and one 
> that came with it, it read a bit low.  But when I used an MFJ949e, it 
> was right on.  Gotta run with what I have.
> 
> So I checked out the K2/100 at what it said was 10w/53w/111w (Full 
> Power).  And I got the results, that are displayed here;
> 
> http://www.k4dgw.com/k2.html
> 
> The 10w settings seem a little bit more dispersed than I would have 
> thought.  The 10m, 12m & 20m 53w settings seem a bit low.  Then at what 
> the rig says is 111w/Full Power, the rig seems even lower.
> 
> Do I need to go back through and run the power calibration, or should I 
> start troubleshooting?
> 
> I have a KAT100, that was powered down, and the power was taken out of 
> the back of the K2/100.