john petters wrote: > > Hi Dave, > My K3 puts out the full 12 watts on FM. Basic rig, no PA, nor ATU. In > fact I have been woirking some EU stations on the Sporadic E opening on > 10FM today. > 73 > John G3YPZ > Mine will put out 100W, though it caused a squawking noise to come from the shack computer and the mouse pointer to freeze! So I have been working 10 FM using 30W. K3 stays cool and I haven't heard any fans come on. I asked for audio reports and twice received the reply "beautiful audio".
If you can't get full audio then the only thing I can think of is to check the TX Gain calibration on 10m. Can you get full power out on CW at that end of the band? When doing the gain calibration on mine I noticed that the current meter on my power supply only showed about 8A for 50W on 10m compared to about 12A on the other bands. That struck me as a bit odd (the K2 was least efficient on 10m) but it seems to work OK so I haven't investigated further. ----- Julian, G4ILO K3 s/n: 222 K2 s/n: 392 G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com Zerobeat Ham Forums: www.zerobeat.net/smf -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/K3-FM-Operation-tp17457370p17458571.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
