Barry,
It might help if you give more details on the meter, where it is
placed and whether you have any SWR which might be reading differently on
the Orion than on the TS-50. If you have a dummy load, have you tried
driving it into that? Also, is your red ALC LED flashing on peaks like
it should? Finally, an indication of where the Orion's power meter runs.
Driving my Orion into a dummy load, my PowerMaster digital meter
shows voice peaks at ~95W, and if I whistle, it reads 103-106W. ALC LED
flashing on voice peaks, power meter reads 100 (does not follow voice
peaks, one of the weaker items in the Orion design.) Hope this helps a
little.
73, Duane
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:29:25 -0500 "Barry LaZar" <k3ndm@arrl.net> writes:
> The way I'm lashed up here in the shack has a power meter
> continuously on
> line. I looked up to see how much I was putting out with the Orion
> II and
> discovered that I was showing about 35-50 watts average on SSB. I
> changed
> mode to CW and found I was putting out about 105-110 Watts.
> I changed over to my Kenwood TS-50 which I have used to
> reach out and touch
> people all over the world to see what I would read with it. I
> discovered
> that the average was about 75 watts.
> I went back to the Orion II to see if I missed something in
> my setup, mic
> gain or something. Nothing I played with seemed to allow me to kick
> up more
> power. I played with the speech processor and the mic gain. All I
> could see
> was that I was affecting the ALC, not much else. OK folks, what am
> I
> missing?
>
>
>
> 73,
> Barry
> K3NDM
>
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