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  1. 3

    High swr on radio with amp on

    ok but but when i am on a different band and i find a nice spot where my radio and amp are swr happy all i can peak out my amp at is around 300 watts. that doesnt sound right to me
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    High swr on radio with amp on

    hey guys i just got a new amp al-811hd and i am having a problem when i key my rig yaesu ft-897 at 100 watts with the amp in standby my swr on my mfj-998 tuner says its flat and the radio says the swr is flat but when i turn the amp on and tune it to reseonance the swr on the radio says high swr...
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    NEW al-811hd making popping sounds in my radio

    Ive heard that
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    NEW al-811hd making popping sounds in my radio

    The al-811hd version i have has the four 572B's i heard they dont run to full potential and last longer.. is this correct? I found a link to the olny one that had the same problem i did. last post on bottom of page...
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    NEW al-811hd making popping sounds in my radio

    I just brought it back and got a brandy new one and i hooked it up and works great .. i noticed that i can get beter tuning and the amp isnt blowing like a furnace now .. go figure.. my luck to get a lemon..
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    NEW al-811hd making popping sounds in my radio

    Hro is only 45 min from here i am just going to bring it back and hope for an extange
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    NEW al-811hd making popping sounds in my radio

    i do run a arm-704 but the problem is its there if the radio is hooked up or not there is some kind of ossilation or a circuit collapsing every second. the tuned input board . scince i just bought it im hoping hro will extange it out. some of the soldering work in this looks like it was done by...
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    NEW al-811hd making popping sounds in my radio

    yaesu ft-897,, i opened the cover and i can hear the ticking in the input tuning area near the rotory switch im not sure if its coming from the coils arount the switch or the filiment choke
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    NEW al-811hd making popping sounds in my radio

    i just bougt this amp at HRO and hooked it up and as soon as i turned it on i hear pulses in my receive. i turnd the amp off and its quiet again so i disconnected all the cables and tuned on my portable radio shack am fm radio to a am dead station and put it near the amp and i can hear the...
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    Magnum 257

    im trying to run a low drive kicker safely and at the correct specs
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    Palomar Elite 900 Chattering on SSB

    i cant tune the rf power down any lower than 5 or 6 watts am in the radio unless i turn my rf power knob down along with it , wich is fine its just a pain in the ass everytime i want to switch to ssb ,, because if i leave the rf power down from am and swich to ssb the amp wont turn on unless it...
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    Palomar Elite 900

    what did u find with this amp , i also have one and not sure on the exact drive wattage.. seems if i set them to the standars that came with it. on ssb it barly turns on.. what do u put in yours am and ssb and what do u get out of it?
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    Palomar Elite 900 Chattering on SSB

    Does anyone know what i can safely drive this amp at,, i set my radio to the spec that came with it , it was 5 watts dead key and 15 watts swing ,, the fact that i set my radio to these paramaters and am works ok but ssb doesnt click the amp on all the time ,, seems to tell me that it needs a...
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    Magnum 257

    hey guys i have a magnum 257 and im trying to stomp down the SSB power on it but if i get it to swing to about 15- to 20 watts it starts sounding like crap and not putting out power all the time. i got am down to its min about 6 watts. but ssb is giving me issues.. does anyone have any info on...
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    Palomar Elite 900 Chattering on SSB

    not sure , here is the same board that is in my unit,,
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    Palomar Elite 900 Chattering on SSB

    I finaly had a chance to open her up and see what was going on. i added to the delay cap that was in there wich is a 680uF and added 2200uf now i get my 1 sec delay.
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    Palomar Elite 900 Chattering on SSB

    what would you usualy do in this case?.. the manufatuer sugests no more than 15 watts swing on ssb so i tuned my magnum 257 ssb pot wich is also my alc in this radio to swing 15 to 20 watts,, can i run this a little hotter? the amp has 2 1446's driving 4 2sc2879, when i ran the amp while tuning...
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    Palomar Elite 900 Chattering on SSB

    I wish i had schematics on this unit , it seems to be a big secret, all i can find is older models. it works nice 2 pushing 4 but id like to solve this anoying problem that should have come out of the box working..
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    Palomar Elite 900 Chattering on SSB

    funny thing is it works fine on am, and it did it on my bench supply in the house. when on my meters if i dont have a dead key of 5 watts the amp wont turn on, am or ssb. im wondering if they didnt put a big enough cap in the keying curcuit.. if i have a DK of 6 on am the amp fires untill unkey...
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    Palomar Elite 900 Chattering on SSB

    i kind of worded it wroge chattering was the wronge word, it acutaly shuts off when im not speaking with it keyed and turns on when i start talking talking keyed,but if im not speaking loud enough it cuts out, its not staying lit for the whole keying of a transmition causing me to sound like im...