[Elecraft] KPA500 adds attenuation in Operate

Richard Lawn rjlawn at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 18:42:17 EST 2018


Ignore my message as I've found the problem. Had the PTT line from AmpKeyer
to K3 plugged into the wrong jack! I had moved the radio to a friends
recently and I apparently didn't put things back the way I had them.

73
Rick, W2JAZ

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 6:31 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML <ar at dseven.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Richard Lawn <rjlawn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For some unknown reason when I switch the KPA500 to Operate the receiver
> in
> > the K3 acts like I've activated attenuation. I've obviously made some
> > change in a menu somewhere but I can't sort it out.
> >
> > SWR continues to read fine and power output is also fine.
> > Any suggestions on what might be wrong?
>
> Happened to mine years ago. T/R PIN diode failure was suspected. A
> replacement RF module fixed it.
>
> GL/73,
>
>     ~iain / N6ML
>


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