[Elecraft] KPA500 power output starts out low, then goes up

[Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP]

Hi Barthold,

Maybe the K3S output is ramping up slowly. Do you notice this with the 
KPA500 off? Running the TX Gain Calibration in the K3 Utility might help 
in that case.

73,
Vic, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/

On 14 Nov 2016 00:51, Barthold Lichtenbelt via Elecraft wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Maybe you can help with something that is baffling me. My KPA500 doesn't go
> to full output until I have spoken my callsign (when trying to get through a
> pileup) a few times. It starts off with 100 or so watts, and after a few
> iterations rises to the full 500W output. I see this both on the KPA500 LED
> bar, as well as on the P3 PEP output monitored by P3TXMON.  My full setup is
> K3S+KPA500+KAT500+P3+P3TXMON. All devices run the latest released firmware.
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> Any thoughts much appreciated!
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> Barthold
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> AD0RM