I will also be posting this to the Win4K3Suite reflector, but I wanted to touch all bases.
The other night, while doing some FT8 operating, I changed bands to 80m. I've operated on 80 plenty of times with this setup. The antenna connected is a Comet CHA-250b vertical, and is resonant on all bands through a clever bit of transformer work. Yes, it's a compromise antenna, but aren't they all? It was going okay, then suddenly the temperature on the amp went up a little (I have a fan I put on the heat sink vanes to help keep it cool), the SWR spiked for just a moment, and the power hasn't reported on the control software since. The radio appears to be sending to the amp, and when I turn it up to over 40w, the second LED on the bar graph flickers, as that LED is the 50w light. So as far as the hardware goes, I *think* it's putting out RF. But it isn't coming back on the CAT communications. Everything ELSE is working fine, the IQ for the waterfall, the frequency, the emission type, everything else seems fine. I'm wondering if I inadvertently did a mischief to the amp. Is there something I can check to make sure? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 73, Gwen, NG3P ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
