Thanks Wes and thanks for the other comments I received - especially an offline exchange with WB6RSE. Looks like my stack has developed a problem that has increased the SWR and that is the entire problem. It has always been marginal on the SSB side of things and the additional degradation has just pushed things over the edge...
Tom N5TW >Since your amplifier is rated only to SWR <= 1.5 maybe that is the issue. What's >the fault indicator telling you? > > Wes N7WS > On 1/2/2015 9:10 AM, Tom Whiteside wrote: >> I've had my K3 for 8 years now and just love it... My only complaint is >> that in SSB I have trouble throttling the power back enough to not >> occasionally trip an Alpha 87A. The K3 just ignores the reins and charges >> ahead... I notice this on a 40M sked where my antenna is close to 2:1 SWR >> - It doesn't seem to misbehave into a dummy load so I'm thinking it is >> related to that... (The antenna is a beam stack on a tower over 400 feet >> away and not pointing at me so it's not an RFI issue...) I've rerun the >> power calibration routines with no difference noted. Headset is a >> Radiosport and mic gain is down to 5 compression level of 11. >> >> I know this group will be able to tell me just how to correct this. >> >> Tom N5TW ______________________________________________________________ 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
