Sunday, April 08, 2007
Hello all,
Finally got to to participle in my first RTTY contest running power. 500+ Watts (as opposed to 100W) makes running a frequency marginally more productive.
Anyway. The amp gets warm... really warm... when "running."
I've got the drive dialed back so the amp is only putting out about 500W, but it still gets plenty warm on top. I'll need to see if adding some additional cooling would help.
The system also "locks up" in transmit mode on 80m. Sorta weird.
Went through and added clip on cores to all of the leads attached to the microKeyer. They seemed to help... Perhaps tripling the power required for a lock up.
My next step is to get real torrides, or perhaps "double up" the cores.
Not sure what my rate is going to look like. Also seems to be a new noise source.
The 3.1 MHz noise source is still there. At this point the smart money says it is in the SLVWD plant.
Zzzzz, Good night.
Finally got to to participle in my first RTTY contest running power. 500+ Watts (as opposed to 100W) makes running a frequency marginally more productive.
Anyway. The amp gets warm... really warm... when "running."
I've got the drive dialed back so the amp is only putting out about 500W, but it still gets plenty warm on top. I'll need to see if adding some additional cooling would help.
The system also "locks up" in transmit mode on 80m. Sorta weird.
Went through and added clip on cores to all of the leads attached to the microKeyer. They seemed to help... Perhaps tripling the power required for a lock up.
My next step is to get real torrides, or perhaps "double up" the cores.
Not sure what my rate is going to look like. Also seems to be a new noise source.
The 3.1 MHz noise source is still there. At this point the smart money says it is in the SLVWD plant.
Zzzzz, Good night.
