[hpsdr] Pentalop PA Consideration

a.groff k0vm at mchsi.com
Wed Jan 14 07:55:42 PST 2009


I am in the process of patching Mercury and Pentalope into the 100 w PA 
of a 1970's transceiver.  In the process of setting up the driver levers 
in PowerSDR>Setup>PASetting , I observed that, on the higher bands, I 
started to to see the Mercury ADC OVERLOAD message...

I can measure -15dbm on 80M up to +10dbm on 10M coming from the PA 
antenna change over relay back to the input of Mercury.
This may be typical (??) isolation of a antenna change over relay and it 
may still be in the safe (??) range for the front end of Mercury, but PA 
designers (Thor ? ) and integrators should pay at least a bit of 
attention to this detail.

AL, K0VM



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