Recently, I dusted off the rig that I normally keep in the backpack for portable activities in a “ready to operate” state (and I emphasize that it is ready, not that it is used), to test a new 30 Ah LiFePo4 battery (that’s another story).
After turning it on, I connected the trusty Bird wattmeter, its dummy load and tested the various output powers across all the bands.
The power levels were all within specifications, but I noticed that on the HF frequencies from 14MHz and above, the bars only showed a couple of notches even though the radio was actually set to 100W.
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