[Elecraft] Power output keeps folding back to 5 watts on my KX2

[Bill Frantz]

Based on a presentation by Eric at the West Valley Amateur Radio 
Association, Elecraft tends to build their equipment to run at 
full advertised power with digital modes. Their model is a RTTY 
contester calling CQ with 60% to 70% of the time transmitting. 
He indicated that the KPA1500 would run for 5 minutes at full 
output before needing a rest.

I have not had any problems running my K3 at 100W with FT8. 
Interestingly, the fans speed up during the receive part of the cycle.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 3/18/19 at 1:39 PM, richard.corfield at gmail.com (Richard 
Corfield) wrote:

>Don't Elecraft recommend using lower power for high duty digital modes?
>(Though FT8 us 15s bursts so not as high duty as some).

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