Hello,
I received my Hermes-Lite 2 today and have been puttering with it for the last hour or two. I noticed that I was getting power output from the PA that seemed to indicate 5W output, but the wattmeter response in deskhpsdr was showing 0.2 Watts. While looking for possible causes for this, I stumbled upon the hl2setup program for setting transistor bias.
I executed said program and the first transistor seemed to adjust properly, but the second transistor process fails with "Bias1 code 100 but low bias current < 10ma." The power amp current never seemed to go above 7ma while it was sending the second transistor commands.
Now when I transmit, I'm barely sending any output (I assume because my transistors are now badly mismatched on settings?)
As a result, I have a few questions:
1) is there a source repository for the hl2setup app? Is it possible I have an out of date version? I downloaded the one from N2ADR's website.
2) is there a way to "reset to factory" for those settings? Or a command I can send that matches the defaults that come from the factory?
3) If there is not, is there a way I can manually diagnose why transistor 2 is failing the hl2setup and adjust manually?
Thanks in advance for any help the group might provide!
Pete - W3POG