[Elecraft] [K3] Test Mode TX and TX Monitor?

[Phil Hystad]

In Test mode there is no signal output at all.  That is the reason for Test Mode.  So, on the P3, you don’t see a signal and you don’t see signal power level.  But, the fact that the SWR bar chart shows something is, to me, an anomaly.

73, phil


> On Sep 29, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Bob McGraw - K4TAX <rmcgraw at blomand.net> wrote:
> 
> At what power level do you see or measure this signal?  I don't seem to see any power output in TEST mode during transmit.
> 
> 73
> Bob, K4TAX
> 
> On 9/29/2015 12:23 PM, Dan Atchison wrote:
>> Phil:
>> 
>> Do you have a K3S by any chance.  My K3S actually transmits a signal when in TEST mode!  When I told Elecraft about it, they shrugged their heads like it can't be.
>> 
>> The TX power appears both on my P3 (with TX MON showing both PEP and SWR), and also my LP-100A wattmeter.  It's only very, very short  bursts of my CW sent signal, but it's there.  My K3 does not do this.
>> 
>> As mentioned, I see this with TEST on and either VOX on or off. Have never noticed on sideband.
>> 
> 
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