Hi all. In the past few days I've been messing with PSK31 on my Pegasus.
I've done of a lot of PSK31, but not with the Pegasus. Here's my question.
I've got the setup adjusted for about 10 watts according to the meter in my
external antenna tuner. I think the meter is pretty close because it reads
90 or 100 watts with the Pegasus going full bore. The important fact is that
I have the power cut back on the Pegasus.
However, after a lengthy transmission, I notice that the heat sinks on the
Pegasus are very warm (too hot to hold). I would expect this if I were
transmitting full bore, but is this normal with reduced power? They seem to
cool during receive and during extended receive don't get warm at all.
One last piece of information. I'm using an antenna with about a 2:1 SWR on
14.070 and matching that using the new LDG internal tuner. I still have my
external tuner connected, but have the selector switch to bypass it's tuner.
73,
Mark
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