Tom,
I have an Alpha 89. I also have noted the first LED of the grid current
monitor stays lighted faintly. I have taken care of this by ignoring it. I
have assumed that this represents a maladjustment of the input to the LED
monitoring ckt, but have been too lazy to do anything about it.
Sam, W5LU
>From: "Tom Branch" <tom@k4nr.org>
>To: <amps@contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [Amps] Alpha 89
To: <amps@contesting.com>
>Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:11:01 -0600
>
>I disconnected the rig and just keyed the amplifier. In CW setting, the
>grid current first LED glows and then goes out. In SSB, it glows and stays
>lit. It's not the IC-746.
>
>Tom
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "jeff millar" <wa1hco@adelphia.net>
>To: "Tom Branch" <tom@k4nr.org>
>Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 7:27 AM
>Subject: Re: [Amps] Alpha 89
>
>
> > Didn't I see a lot of reports that these modern solid state rigs have
> > excessive power in a spike at first turnon, first key, etc...depending
>on
> > some details of their internal design?
>
>
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