Grant - My 565 Orion has always shown that slow rise to "set" power out on
the first key closure , or on SSB the first PTT under random conditions but
always after a long delay in transmitting (like when I am listening for a
long time without transmitting ) - I have to remember on SSB on short calls
to just close PTT once without transmittimg to get the power to be at set
power when I talk.
I have been having trouble with the ALC letting power go all over the
place -( first noticed it when the Centurion was randomly popping up to
1300 watts or down to 300 watts instead of 700 watts where I normally run
it ) .Confirmed it was the Orion by putting another external wattmeter
between the Orion and the amp .
During trouble shooting the ALC issues that I also noticed that switching
bands will cause the lag in power coming up -especially if I do not wait a
few seconds apparently for everything to get settled down -or
do not let the alc settle the power .
For instance switching from 160 to 10 , there is a significant lag
in 10 meter power coming up - more noticeable if you have let
the 160 power settle (mine goes to about 120 watts at first key down
then drifts back to 100 watts -when set at 100 percent power)
then when you switch to ten it comes up slowly . This seems to
happen going from 160 to 20 or above but not to 80 or 40-
probably due to system gain effects on alc.
Then today as I was confirming what I recalled , I noticed
something I had not noticed before - Lo and Behold
if you switch from 10 to 160 and just tap the key as the
display shows 1.800 - the LED in the MIN RX button
goes out and switches to the LED in the SUB rx button
then when you tap the key again it switches back .
One time when it did this , the sub rx audio was dead
as far as received signals but side tone was there .
All the above is on lcw cw .
FWIW -- Hank K7HP
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