Last post for the evening about my progression with the sbitx. I started with the original image that came with the unit. I played around receiving with no issues. Ssb, ft8 and cw receiving great.
With a dummy load I did some TX testing. Trying to calibrate is not easy.. yes the procedure is.. but I'm not sure if I did it correctly.
Following the video online, on 40m Cw with a pitch of 500 in. I started to load to 20w looking/using an external meter.
With a load of 72 73 I got about 20w on the meter and 30w on the internal display. So I did the matercal command and adjusted to read about 20w on both meter.
From there I pushed the load to 100 on cw I'm getting little over 30w on the external meter.. even do the meter on the unit shows 40+ watts... anyway.. did I do something wrong?
Secondly. To be safe I downloaded a fresh image from the group.io link. I loaded the new image and I'm struggling getting the same results. Meaning power outputs. Maybe I need check if any settings are different.
Don't get me wrong, this all concept of the radio running from a pi is great. But I still think needs work.
What are your results?
So here my questions:
1. Why is the new fresh image that I downloaded giving me so much less powert output? Did anyone tried a fresh Image? 2. Has anyone messed arounf with the user setting.ini file? 3. Are you getting any close to 40w on 80 or 40?
