[Kenwood] TS-570 DG Service Menu

[Thomas F Giella W4HM]

I went into the special service menu in my Kenwood TS-570DG to check and see 
if the output power was still set per the factory specs, which is under menu 
#18. It was correctly set to 118 which corresponds with normal 100 watts 
output in CW mode. I did tweak up the output power setting from 118 to 143 
and that raised the output power to 125 watts in CW mode.

I then went into menu #22 which is normally set at 025 which corresponds 
with 5 watts output minimum. I tweaked it down to 005 to see if I could get 
the minimum power output down to below 1 watt for QRPp. I got it down to 500 
mw.

I then went to menu item #51 and pressed the up button which writes and 
saves changes to the EPROM.

So now after I saved the settings, the LCD output power meter only 
registered up to a maximum of 60 watts in CW mode, even though the rig was 
putting out 125 watts, via my Autek Research WM1 SWR/power meter. The 60 
watts output thing is normal if you change the power output settings on menu 
#18 and #22 and then save them under menu #51.

So I went back into the service menu, returned the previously changed 
settings under #18 and #22 back to factory settings, saved them to the EPROM 
under #51 but the LCD output power meter still only reads up to a maximum of 
60 watts in CW mode, even though my Autek WM! reads 100 watts.

So the question is how do I get the built in LCD power meter to read 100 
watts again?

73 & GUD DX,
Thomas F. Giella W4HM
Lakeland, FL, USA
w4hm at tampabay.rr.com

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