Re: [Elecraft] XV144 help please

2013-02-21 Thread K7MDL
There are internal attenuator adjustments in your transverter. You might want to pop the cover and see what you got. It should easily get up to 20W out with the 1 mW drive, assuming you have the right internal input settings. That is what I use here also, 1mW drive. Since your wattmeter is

Re: [Elecraft] XV144 help please

2013-02-21 Thread Dale Boresz
Bob, I use the XV144 here w/ my K3, and my Config:xvtr power is set to L1.00, and that will easily drive the XV144 power LED's into the red. I suspect the issue is not with your K3 settings, but rather with the jumpers inside the XV144 and the setting of R22 that acts as an input attenuator.

Re: [Elecraft] XV144 help please

2013-02-21 Thread Don Wilhelm
Bob, It did produce 20 watts with 1 mW input when it was here. And the LEDs are calibrated to what *my* wattmeter was reading. My wattmeter is checked periodically against a calibrated 40 dB power tap and a W7ZOI Power Meter (homebrew, but calibrated). So remove the top cover, and try