I was recently transmitting 20m SSTV using the DroidSSTV phone app which has no cat control so I toggled the PPT to "press on/press off" so I wouldn't have hold the mic button down through the cycle. I must have gotten called away for some reason while it was transmitting and it may have been 30-45 minutes before I returned to find the SSTV cycle had completed and radio still in transmit mode (red light on). Since that time the power meter seems to only register 1 to 3 watts in digital modes depending on the band, 17m being the most, 40m being the least. SSB output seems a bit higher but neither mode seems to push the meter to 5 watts.
I don't have test equipment to verify the accuracy of the power output meter but I'm wondering if I damaged something during the prolonged transmit event that would affect the rf output. BTW, I don't recall the radio being being overly warm when I turned off transmit and I've since made some FT8 contacts, one with and rst of +10 from about 1,100 miles away. I've also compared the X5105 tx and rx with my X6100 and the X5105 rx seems to to have lost some sensitivity when I do a side by side comparison of FT8 signals decoded. Any thoughts would be appreciated.?
