Need some advice from the guru's out there. Of course, it's Saturday, and
TenTec service is
closed on weekends.
I've got an Argonaut V. Been using it fine for a while, keeping my power level
around 5W, but I
decided to actually up the power to the max to see what it would do. I was
quite surprised to see
that I could not get more than 14W out of it above 30m! This is both with the
built-in power
meter, as well as an MFJ-949E.
Something isn't right here. So I checked the SWR was from the rig to the tuner
(since I had a 1:1
from the tuner on out to the antenna). I switched into bypassed dummy load,
and keyed up on CW,
with the power set to max (full clockwise). It still showed 14W and the tuner
said 1:1 SWR, which
is what I expected. But when I use the built in SWR meter (key up, hit the
"split" button), it
showed an SWR greater than 2.5:1 (pegged the meter). Trying the reflected
power function ("A-B"
button), it shows a reflected power of around 7W.
160m - 18W
80m - 20W
40m - 21W
30m - 20W
20m - 13W
17m - 7W
15m - 12W
12m - 7W
10m - 14W
What's going on here?!? Help!
73,
Patrick N3EO
P.S. I've done a master reset and I'm using firmware 1.70.
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