David,
I had the same problem here after getting my 3000 back from Flex. It was
totally recalibrated after the firewire repair and I knew that it had 95Watts
or more, out or they would not have released it.
They calibrate the output power at the center freq of each band, and it may
differ at the band edges due to component tolerances or aging. This
information was supplied to me by Dudley as I was working thru a low power
issue.
What I found was that I had a marginal connection on 2 of the coax jumpers used
between the Flex and the amp and the Wattmeter. One of these was intermittent
and was hard to find.
Replacing both cables resolved the low power.
The SWR at the low power used by the ATU was great, but at the 100watt level
was causing foldback of the finals( I believe ).
Hope that you have simple solution like this.
doug
-Original Message-
From: David Edwards w...@verizon.net
Sent: Dec 29, 2012 10:07 AM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: [Flexradio] Flex 5000A Power output
My radio doesn't seem to be making 100 watts. Running PowerSDR 2.5.3, Windows
7 sp1.
on 80 m 66watts
on 20 m 85 watts
the SWR into the dummy load is 1.0:1
I thought I used to see 100 watts on all bands.
doug
K4DMH
A HAPPY FLEXER
OJ
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