David In addition to the other comments, you antenna may be a factor. If you have a dummy load (if not try to make one that can handle 5 watts or so) try it. If your K2 is not operating into a reasonable match, of course it will limit the transmit output to protect the power transistors. If all is well with the load, then check your 160 board as suggested. The low power output of my K2 will output 5 or more watts into a 2.5:1 match (that I used to run before i upgraded my tuner). In my case the KPA100 is less forgiving, requireing a better match on 160m, FYI.
73, curt --- "David N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > I Noticed that during the cq 160m contest this > weekend > that I could not get more than 4 watts out of my K2 > The Requested power goes up to 15.2 of course but I > cannot get more than 4 and on the first transmit I > get > a momentary Hi current. My power supply is steady on > voltage and current. I switched the display on the > K2 > to display V/I and the voltage drops on transmit and > the current goes up to about 2.4. This is within the > Cal Current range. Now on 40 meters it is fine it > puts > out 14 watts. same with 30m. I haven't tried the > other > bands. Also the Requested power on 160m does not > match > at any request of power through out the range from > lowest to highest. Is this connected? > Thanks > David KR4OW > K2 4320 > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
