[Elecraft] K3: Low power in RTTY

[Lee Buller]

I noticed this also....but I found that is was an antenna issue...or more so a coax issue.  I changed out some coax and the issue went away for the most part, but I notice that since I put in the last upgrade (2.02/1.77) things changed for AFSK.  I have to drive the K3 quite a bit harder than I did before, and it would never make the 100 watts output.  The best I could do was 80 watts before the Xmit ALC would go to 5 bars and just stop.  Running 3 to 4 bars would only give me 80 watts and increasing it any more was fruitless.  I was going to ask about this myself....

My line in was at 48 to 50 and it tops out at 60.  I am running the Signalink USB and had to increase the drive from the device considerably.  I wonder if something changed in the software which either I did not read about or is an artifact of doing something that affects something else.

Lee
K0WA
250 RTTY QSOs in about 3 hours.



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