[Elecraft] P3TXMON Advice

Don Wilhelm donwilh at embarqmail.com
Sat Feb 23 18:37:15 EST 2019


Steve,

The 200 watt coupler will give more resolution at lower powers.
In other words, the 2000 watt coupler covers the scale from 0 to 2000 
watts, and 100 watts is only 1/20th of the way up the scale.  With the 
200 watt coupler, 100 watts is the halfway point.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 2/23/2019 6:09 PM, Steve Witt wrote:
> I'm contemplating adding a P3 to my K3s and the P3TXMON option seems a
> worthwhile addition. I am trying to figure out which directional
> coupler to select but can't find much if any information between the
> DCHF-200 and DCHF-2000. So I don't have any data upon which to base
> the decision. At the current time I have a K3s/10 and a KXPA100 amp
> and so the 200W coupler would be fine but maybe there's a higher power
> amp in my future, don't know. Seems like there must be some
> performance aspect that the DCHF-200 has that's superior to the
> DCHF-2000 or else there would be no reason for the '200s existence.
> 
> If anyone can give a little more information I would very much
> appreciate it.
> 
> 73,
> Steve  K6ZX
> 
> 
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