Well, that was revealing! Mine puts out 85W on 160 and 80 meters
80 watts on 40 meters
70 watts on 20 meters
60 watts on 10 meters
into a heathkit dummy load and a drake 2700 ATU wattmeter.
I have seen similar results over the years with radios and always plenty of
drive for a linear so never bothered me but now that I am old I find I use
the linear much less but am really a QRP nut case so at the levels I am
getting it is still good power and all the other things the new gee whiz
rigs do more than make up for the few watts of power loss!
Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Bryce" <prosolar@sssnet.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] eagle
> I'll keep this short as two thumb typing is hard to do.
>
> I understand the electronic aspect of it as well as the tolerance and
> logarithm of real power in the real world.
>
> Please, please, please understand I KNOW that no one on the other end will
> know the difference.
>
> But, I paid almost $3000 for a radio that displays on the front panel 100
> watts output when the real power into a dummy load @13.9 volts @ the radio
> power connection I have 76 watts on 20 meters out of the box brand
> spanking new.
>
> This is NOT a 'simple adjustment-- no one will notice' problem.
>
> No one, not me, not you, should pay three grand and then need to crack
> the case open to adjust anything.
>
> This is not a 'no one can tell the difference problem,' this is a quality
> control problem.
>
> If the display on my brand new $3k Omni 7 says 100 watts, then by god the
> power output should be "close."
>
> 85 watts is fine, but the display should reflect the rf output of 85 watts
> (not lab gear, I know)
>
>
> With sore thumbs,
>
> Mike
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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