[Kenwood] Tuner and power output

[Rob Gallagher]

You did have it tune to the dummy load prior to making the measurements?

Rob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <johngeig at yahoo.com>
To: <adjust_ts2000 at yahoogroups.com>; <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>;
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:53 AM
Subject: [Kenwood] Tuner and power output


> I recently purchased a used Kenwood TS2000 (delivered
> Monday) from a ham dealer that does have a 90 day
> warranty on used equipment.  It is the second TS2000 I
> have owned.  Using both a dummy load and antennas, the
> rig is putting out 100 watts, as measured by an
> external wattmeter (using FSK or FM to produce a
> carrier).  However, when I put the internal tuner in
> line, the power drops on some bands-to maybe 80 watts
> or so.  I didn't have an external meter when I owned
> my previous TS2000 so I can't comment on what happed
> with that one.  And I have had a couple of other
> radios with internal tuners (Icom 756 and Icom 746)
> and never noticed the power lowering with the tuner at
> all.
>
> So is this normal for the TS2000, or may there be
> something going bad in the tuner?  If it is a tuner
> problem-any ideas as to what is going wrong?  If it is
> bad, I want to get it fixed before the warranty
> expires.
> 73s John NE0P
>
>
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