[Elecraft] Drive Control - K3 and FPA-1500

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Pete,

Config>PWR SET>PER-BAND?

73,
Chet, N8RA

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From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Pete Smith N4ZR
Sent: Monday, November 7, 2022 8:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Drive Control - K3 and FPA-1500

Thanks, Kent - that's what I thought, but it doesn't seem to be working.  I generally use the internal tuner, and I was hopping around a lot within bands, but unfortunately I didn't collect data on which hops produced warnings - either excessive current warnings or over-power readings on the LED scale.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 11/6/2022 9:29 PM, K9ZTV wrote:
> Pete ...
>
> You have to first set the drive manually per-band on the K3. Once that is done, the K3 adjusts its drive to whatever you have set it to when changing to that new band.
>
> 73,
> Kent
> K9ZTV
>
>> On Nov 6, 2022, at 7:05 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR<pete.n4zr at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Just finished SS, and on many occasions when switching bands I found myself overdriving the KPA-1500 on the new band.  No harm done, but I thought the K3/KPA-1500 combination was supposed to manage drive on a per-band basis.  Did I get that wrong?
>>
>> --
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
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