Thanks Marc. I got it all running on my new PC. I will check out the
driver transistor first. I have a 20 watt amplifier at the output of the
On 4/18/2015 10:33 AM, marc olanie wrote:
> Hi Tom
> I'm away from home... hard to reproduce your situation.
>
> I've never used any "direct serial" control, I can't help you a lot on
> this subject.
>
> 2W on the output is definitely not normal. But I doubt it could come
> from the 6.3 itself. If the softrock has any trouble after the QSE, (or
> "in" the QSE) you probably won't have any kind signal out, even 1 mW.
>
> I would probably test the Bias control circuit and the state of the
> output of the first driver (2N3866).
>
> Oh, and please check the "good health" of the various transformers in
> the TX RF path. A short between two turn could heavily impair the signal
> (particularly the transformer located after the 3866) . A bad connecter
> filtrer could have the same effect (by the way,do you have the same
> troule on every band ? ).
> If a filter is broken or badly connected, you'll have trouble in RX too
>
>
> Hope you'll quickly find the culprit
>
> 73'
> Marc f6itu
>
> 2015-04-16 18:21 GMT+02:00 David Jones - KB9GPM <
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