What are you using as a load, antenna or dummy load? What is the SWR of whatever your feeding the output into?
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 17:10, jhebeacon via groups.io
<jhebeacon@...> wrote:
So I could use some help from the group here:
My x5105 is only putting out about 0.8w of power, no matter what I do. I've pushed/set/adjusted the "Po" button a bunch of times, adjusted a bunch of options, and the output watts never changes. I tried a couple different swr/pwr meters, thinking maybe I had a bad unit, but both meters report outputs of less than 1 watt. Mode doesn't seem to matter: USB, CW, whatever - all are less than 1 watt.
I'm about 1 year + out of warranty, so have nothing to lose. My googling has taken me to reddit, where a guys says he has a broke power amplifier.
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I'm pretty much a noob at stuff, so have no idea where to start. I'd rather not bin a $600 radio if I don't have to....
