I'm having a strange problem with my Peg. I noticed that it wouldn't transmit
on 17 to 10 meters, even though the red tx light was on, but no RF. 160 to 20
meters transmitted FB. I was testing this morning to see if the Peg was pulling
current even though it wasn't putting out RF. I set the power out to 20 watts
or so I found that it is pulling 18 amps or so,but not putting out any RF on
the bad band's. On the good band's it is putting out 20 watts or so into a
dummy load and pulling about 7 amps. All with a carrier mode. I was surprised
to note that for a time the problem existed only on 12 and 10 meters! 17 and
15 meters were working. A few week's ago it started working on all band's,
then went back to 160 to 20 meters. Does anyone have a clue as to what might be
going on? What I'm looking for is a single point of failure in the 10m to 17m
area of the band pass filter, but then I remember that it also worked for a
short time on 10/12m AND 160/20m! I'm having trouble reading the schematics as
I don't have a very clear copy of them. Now it is transmitting on 160 to 20
meters again. I just took it apart and looked for cold solder joint's, didn't
find any. Thanks in advance, for any useful suggestion's.
73 Jeff kb2m
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