I can cover all bands on the internal tuner of my rig, but in some cases with reduced power.
In some cases, I get no RFI at 200 watts, although I usually operate the FT-1000 in Class A at 75 watts.
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When engaged by the front panel's [CLASS-A] switch, the PA bias is changed dramatically, and the Mark-V puts out a 75-Watt signal envelope of astounding purity: during Class-A operation, SSB 5th- and higher-order Intermodulation Distortion (the kind that contributes to "splatter" reports) will drop to the -80 dB range! |
10M SWR = 1:1.2, Tuner bypassed, 200 watts clean, Operate at 75w
12M SWR = 1:1.2, Tuner bypassed, 200 watts clean, Operate at 75w
15M SWR = 1:1.5, With Tuner, 75 Watts Max, SSB comes through Powered Sub-woofer attached to the HI-FI. I bypassed it, using ferrite chokes and AC line filters, all to no avail. I simply resign myself to remembering to turn it off before I operate.
17M SWR = 1:1.5, With Tuner, 200 watts clean, Operate at 75w
20M SWR = 1:1.2, With Tuner, 200 watts clean, Operate at 75w
30M SWR = 1:1.5, With Tuner, 200 watts clean, Operate at 75w
40M SWR = 1:1.5, With Tuner, 200 watts clean, Operate at 75w
80M SWR = 1:1.5, With Tuner, 75 watts max. 80 gives me a bit of trouble in SSB. I've knocked my XYL off the cordless phone at 200 watts PEP and I tend to come through the PC speakers. I mainly restrict myself to CW on 80 and never more than 75 watts.
160M SWR = 1:1.5, With Tuner. I couldn't believe I got a match on 160M (performance probably sucks and that low SWR means serious LOSS, but I've made quite a few contacts, Stateside only though). HOWEVER, anything past about 50 watts, and I make the keypad on the security alarm beep. Somehow, RF gets into the system, and the keypad responds as though someone entered an unrecognized command. The system is fine, just an annoying beep (annoying to the XYL anyway!)
Here's the offending little bugger.
