[GCARC] Remote HF Station KPA1500

[Jim n2gxj]

Hi Courtney and all, AMP appeared to be working fine for me remote this
evening on 10 meters to make an FT8 contact after 9pm with ZL at about 300
watts when nothing else was on the band.

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 1:55 PM Courtney Smith <court_smith at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Any updates?  Is station out of service?
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> Subject: [GCARC]  Remote HF Station KPA1500
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> It appears that the VSWR Bridge in the KPA1500 has failed.  I say that
> because the KPA1500 VSWR indication remains at 0:1 no matter what.  SWR and
> Power indication on the radio are normal.  It appears that the failure
> occurred sometime Saturday, 11/25/2023, because I was able to make high
> power contacts in the CQWW CW contest Friday, but not on Saturday.
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