You could also just go in and change one of the resistors in the ALC
circuit. Per Ten-Tec's guidance, I went in and did this in the O-V I had
and dropped my minimum power to about a watt RF output.
** Scott Rosenfeld NF3I & AAR3IB/T ** http://w3eax.umd.edu/~ham **
** Burtonsville, MD FM19mc * DXCC WAC WAS * QRP-L #147 * AK-QRP **
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, bill lazure wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> Rather than the suggested fix of putting an attenuator at the
> output of the rig to drop 20 watts to 5, try putting an attenuator at
> the input to the P.A. This way, you're not burning resistors with 15
> watts of power. Don't know the layout of this specific rig, so I can't
> tell you exactly how to do this.
> Bill - N2TPA
>
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