And as a quick follow-up: when my KXPA100 is off - and my understanding is that when it is off, it is bypassed with a relay - then I get a very high SWR on my KX3, whereas if I connect my antenna to the KX3 directly, then I have a great tuning...
Ed On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Edouard Lafargue <edou...@lafargue.name> wrote: > > A quick question: > > I use a KX3 + KXPA100 as my QTH setup. > > I recently did work on my QTH antenna, and the SWR indicator on my KX3 > now jumps around a lot when transmitting on digital modes, with peaks up to > 2/3. As does the power output. Audio levels are good though, same as usual. > And when looking at the KXAP100 SWR LED indicator, it stays at "1" and does > not fluctuate at all. The antenna is well tuned for 20m and the ATU is able > to take SWR to 1.1 or 1.0 on that band. > > I am a bit confused: shouldn't the KX3 and KXPA100 SWR indicators show > the same values? Does the KX3 SWR indicator only indicate the link between > the KX3 and the amplifier? In which case it should remain at a steady "1" > all the time, nothing has changed on my KX3-KXPA100 link... Can someone > shed some light on this behaviour to understand what's going on? > > Ed > > W6ELA > ______________________________________________________________ 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
