[Elecraft] KPA 500: Does yours need time to warm up?

[Don Wilhelm]

Do you have the mic gain set so it provides 5 to 7 bars on the ALC 
meter?  If not, you are not driving the audio hard enough and the "power 
creep" you are experiencing is normal for that situation - with low 
audio, the K3 will "power hunt" to try to bring the power output up to 
whatever was requested.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/20/2011 8:40 PM, tomb18 wrote:
> Well I did the TX gain calibration.  Any other ideas?  It can take 10-15
> seconds to get the full power out.  I thought solid state amps were
> immediate?
>