Charles Thanks for the comment . Playing around this evening I found that if I reset the. 'Per band' power setting on the K3 on 80m. the problem went away . So maybe the optimum drive level got corrupted some how. See what happens next time I use it
73 Bob Sent by Ipad On 4 Jan 2013, at 20:53, "hawley, charles j jr" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had that, but the K3 power goes to a hundred watts which causes it. I'm > thinking that rf gets into the cable and tells the K3 to go back to 100 watts > as if the KPA500 were switched to standby. Cycling the KPA between standby > and on resets it. > > Sent from my iPad > Chuck, KE9UW > (Jack for BMW motorcycles) > > On Jan 4, 2013, at 2:48 PM, "Bob G3PJT" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a frequent incidence of Fault 6 Excess power tripping. This seems to >> occur only on 80m. I have the K3 and KPA500 linked with the AUX cable. I get >> the trip even if the K3 output is zero! >> If I unplug the AUX cable then the KPA500 works perfectly on all bands. >> Any ideas as to why this happens? >> >> 73 Bob G3PJT >> >> >> Sent by Ipad >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
