This question is really a spin-off from the "Power Control at 50-MHz".
I measured CW output with PWR set to max on the HF bands with my Bird-43 power meter into a dummy load. I found that a setting of 12w actually netted near 16w output 160-20m, but dropped to 8w on 10 & 6m. I didn't do a power calibration to set back the power so wondering if there is anything negative from running the K3/10 above 12w? This really would be an advantage for driving the 20/300w amp that I will be assembling. I don't expect full output with 16w drive (maybe 240w) but that will net more than 12w would (180w). I also find that in TEST mode I am getting 0-1.5mw output on 500-KHz vs. 0.5mw cited in literature for the K3. I normally run between 0.25 and 0.62mw to drive my 500-KHz linear (50-100w output), so do not run at the higher levels, but found it interesting that it output more than a mw. 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-600w, 432-100w, 1296-60w, 3400-fall 2010 DUBUS Magazine USA Rep dubus...@hotmail.com ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ 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
