David, Just remember that voice is not the same as CW, even on analog radios your speech pattern will only show 30 to 50% of the CW output power due to the vast difference in average to Peak power of CW. If you are driving the rig hard enough to get the same output as CW you will be badly distorted and splattering the band. A two tone test signal is the best way to quantify the output in SSB. Just my .02 worth... regards,
-----Original Message----- >From: David Land <[email protected]> >Sent: Aug 28, 2013 8:38 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Flexradio] FLEX3000 can't get a full 100W output > >I haven't been paying much attention to my output in the past but have >noticed lately that I don't get a full 100W output on SSB on any band. That >is with a whistle on the input which should drive it to max output. I'm >looking at the 'Fwd Pwr' on the TX Meter which agrees pretty close with an >external BIRD power meter that I have. >So yesterday I hooked her up to a 50ohm 1KW Cantenna to see what each band >would do. It varied from a low of 74 watts on 12 mtrs to a high of 95 on 15 >mtrs. Seems like I heard somewhere about some calibration or something you >can do to fix this sort of problem. >Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. >73, Dave KD5FX >_______________________________________________ >FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >[email protected] >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ doug K4DMH A HAPPY FLEXER OJ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
