[Elecraft] Excessive SWR Faulting KPA500
k2te at juno.com
k2te at juno.com
Fri Apr 17 20:18:55 EDT 2020
I discovered a problem this afternoon where the KPA500 is faulting on 20,
17 and 12 meters. Set up here is the K-line, K3/KAT500/KPA500.
Everything had been working fine until this point. I get a hard fault
(error code 9) on the three bands which means excessive SWR even though
it has tuned fine before switching from standby. Antennas: 6BTV vertical
and Inverted Vs for 17 and 12. The Vs are fed from a common point. The
KPA500 works fine on 80 thru 10 on the 6BTV except 20 of course. I tried
turning down the power when on 20 (via the K3 drive) but the SWR runs up
and faults.
I checked the Elecraft website but no schematics for the KPA500. My
guess is the LPF units for the bands in question have gone TU.
73 de Ed
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