As others have said, check your jumpers, and especially any barrel or elbow connectors you bought at a hamfest. They are junk. I learned the hard way that paying through the nose for good connectors, like Amphenol, is cheaper than buying a new 3CX800 tube, and saves hours of frustration. Save them for QRP--that's all they are good for.
73 Eric WD6DBM Michael Eberle <mtebe...@mchsi.com> wrote: >Yes, I suppose something may just need a slight adjustment. It just >frustrates me when things don't work like I expect them to. I was >always afraid to run JT65 at more than 80-100 watts until I saw this >post. Started trying higher power while keeping a close eye on the >temp. No faults on any band but 6M if it gets much over 200 watts (8 >watts drive). It seems to be running 450 watts easily on 160M. > >On 11/11/2014 5:44 AM, Eric Norris wrote: >> Don't do it! If you can't get an answer here, contact Elecraft support. >> Your KPA500 will work great on 6m once you get this issue resolved. Mine >> runs at 600w on 6m meteor scatter using FSK441 30 seconds on, 30 seconds >> off, for hours on end, hitting 65C but soldiering on without complaint. >> That would leave my former dual 3-500Z amp squeaking from the freaking. >> >> 73 >> >> Eric WD6DBM >> >> Michael Eberle <mtebe...@mchsi.com> wrote: >> >>> On 11/10/2014 5:56 PM, mcduf...@ag0n.net wrote: >>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:34:09 -0800, Jim Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> During KPA500 beta, I was loaned one for a major RTTY contest weekend >>>>> and told to run it "with all the lights lit." I did, and it worked fine. >>>>> In the 3-4 years I've owned one, I regularly run it at full power in >>>>> digital modes on all bands, 160-6M. When it gets warm, the fan speeds >>>>> up, but it continues to put out full power. This includes digital modes >>>>> like FSK441 and JT65A on 6M, and lots of RTTY on the HF bands. >>> > ______________________________________________________________ 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
