Re: [Elecraft] K3 tx power troubles

2020-06-05 Thread Martin Sole
Hi Bill, I have the K3 working again, currently going great stuff on 10m to give it a good workout. Problem was one of those silly ones but also one that I have just recently read about on the reflector, the case of a loose TMP coax. In my case it turned out to be J7 on the KREF3 board. Mart

[Elecraft] K3 tx power troubles

2020-06-02 Thread Martin Sole
My aging K3, S/N 298, is once again proving a little troublesome. Into a nice solid 50 ohm dummy load with a strong 14 volt supply and short thick cables never known to be an issue I see a maximum of about 10 watts out when set to 110 watts on the front panel. Starting at 0w it increases in lin