wayne burdick wrote:
Just tune up into a dummy load on any band you want to "reset."
Ok, I'll try that asap, but I'm still curious as to why there's no relay
activity on 30m when forcing a tune operation: the antenna is not tuned
to 30m natively, only on 20m, but on 20m the atu clicks and on 30m it
doesn't. Well, I'll get back to you when I have tried the dummy load
("no, I should build one" is the answer to the question you were
thinking to ask ;-)
In general I recommend operating the KX1 at 4 W and lower. The extra dB
or two you get by exceeding this is usually not worth the risk.
Sorry, I wasn't being clear: I was talking about the power-supply mods,
such as cutting a trace to use the jack's builtin switch. The scenario I
had in mind is a melt-down caused by a short-circuit, not extended
operation at high power levels.
internal battery is about 2 watts. If you really wanted to fuse it, you
could use a very small self-resetting polyfuse -- see www.digikey.com
for possible types to use. The main problem in the KX1 is space, so
you'll need a *really* small fuse.
Yep, that's the same issue I thought of. Thanks for the infos and for
the pointer, I'll look into it.
B73,
Andrea.
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Homepage: http://andrea.borgia.bo.it / Amateur radio: IZ4FHT
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