Folks, prior to going to the most recent firmware on one of my QMX+ rigs, I ran PuTTY and documented my power out into a dummy load on each band. Then I installed the 2.0 firmware and ran another PuTTY session, noting the power - it was exactly the same.
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Last night I ran the calibration procedure - geeze, that took forever! Anyway, after doing that I did a mic gain adjustment and went up to the 40 meter phone band. OMG - a bazillion stations - the 7 district QSO party in full swing! Started adjusting my manual antenna tuner and noticed that my power output was much lower than it had been. Looked like less than three watts now. Tried calling a station but no reply. So, I fired up my recently built WA3TFS 20 watt amp and was successful working several stations before calling it a day.
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This morning I started PuTTY and checked power out on each band. Sure enough, the result was that each band is now showing 50 percent less RF out than before. Not cool. I was thinking about doing a factory reset to see if that would cure the issue. Or going back to 0.027 firmware. But that would mean doing that hour long calibration routine again at some point.
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So, any thoughts about this problem? Have others seen this after doing the calibration run? And if so, what was the resolution?
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Jim / K7TXA
Eagle, ID
SKCC 10447T
BUG 301
