I was tweaking up my Band Pass filters the other day, and noticed something weird. If you advance the Power Requested knob fully clockwise, it reads 15.2 watts on all bands except 12 meters. For 24 megacyccles per second, it shows 10.0 watts.
The K2 (#2456 + A:B, etc.) produces over 10 watts (but not 15.2!) everywhere below 24kkcps, but this behavior of the POUT display has me baffled. Since I always run 5 watts anyhow, I don't see any operational issue, but I sure am curious. Also, power seems a bit low on 10 (and maybe 12) meters, and current a bit high on 160 - I'd not noticed due to the above mentioned self-imposed 5 watt limit. Any ideas out there? Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456 Raw data (Power from the KAT2 in CALP mode, Heathkit Cantenna). Power: Car battery on 16 guage wire (My bench supply peaks at 3A). kkcps Pout (max CW) 1.8 9.9 (High-current annunciator, CAL Cur at 4.0) 3.5 13.9 7.0 13.5 10.1 12.9 14.0 13.8 18.1 14.1 21.0 11.4 24.9 9.6 (Software limited or hardware? Hummmm.....) 28.0 5.8 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
