[Elecraft] K3 Suddenly Putting Out Only 25 watts at 100 watts indicated

[Wes Stewart]

If you have another receiver, run a two-test and listen to the K3 output in a 
narrow BW.  Ideally, the two tones will be considerably stronger than the first 
pair of sidebands.

I suspect they won't be, you'll have a lot more than two and you have a blown 
FET in the HPA.

Wes  N7WS


On 12/12/2018 12:47 PM, N4ZR wrote:
> Transmitted on my K3 for the first time since the 10-meter contest, and it is 
> only showing 25 watts out on the built-in meter into a dummy load. Power 
> output setting of the K3 is 100W, and same results seen on all bands. What 
> could possibly be going on here?  Back to Watsonville?
>
> The cruel karma of it all is that *yesterday* I ordered a KPA-1500.
>