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Index
IMPORTANT ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
PRECAUTIONS .................................................................................................................................................. 4
UNPACKING ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
1. PANEL DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................................. 8
1.1 Front Panel ........................................................................................................................................ 8
1.2 Rear Panel ......................................................................................................................................... 9
2. GENERAL INFORMATION .................................................................................................................... 10
2.1 Power supply ................................................................................................................................... 10
2.2 Input / Output .................................................................................................................................. 10
2.3 ALC / RELAY / CAT ....................................................................................................................... 10
3. INTERCONNECTION WITH THE TRANSCEIVER ................................................................................. 12
4. USE OF THE LINEAR AMPLIFIER ........................................................................................................ 13
4.1 SO2R (Single Operator Two Radio ) ................................................................................................. 14
4.2 Band-Pass Filters Set “SPE BPF1” .................................................................................................... 15
4.3 QSK (Full Break-In) Operation ......................................................................................................... 17
4.4 Tunable Antenna Control ................................................................................................................ 17
4.5 Setting Up a Single Antenna for Reception ......................................................................................... 19
4.6 Two Possible Sets of Antennas .......................................................................................................... 20
4.7 With or Without ATU ....................................................................................................................... 20
4.8 Can also be used on 5 MHz and 70 MHz ............................................................................................ 20
5. EXTERNAL GROUND CONNECTION .................................................................................................. 21
6. ANTENNA ............................................................................................................................................. 22
7. POWER SUPPLY (PSU) ...................................................................................................................... 23
8. TUNER (ATU) – WHERE FITTED ....................................................................................................... 24
9. PROTECTIONS / ALARMS .................................................................................................................... 26
10. PROGRAMMING ................................................................................................................................... 27
10.1 Ways to operate ............................................................................................................................... 27
11. INITIAL OPERATION OF THE AMPLIFIER .......................................................................................... 30
11.1 Initial Programming.......................................................................................................................... 30
11.2 Operating ......................................................................................................................................... 32
Setting Driving Levels .................................................................................................................... 32
12. CONNECTIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 34
12.1 CAT Connector ................................................................................................................................ 34
12.2 Icom ................................................................................................................................................ 35
CAT CI–V Interface ......................................................................................................................... 35
12.3 Kenwood ......................................................................................................................................... 36
CAT RS232 Interface ....................................................................................................................... 36
CAT 5V TTL Interface ..................................................................................................................... 36
12.4 Yaesu .............................................................................................................................................. 37
CAT RS232 Interface ....................................................................................................................... 37
CAT 5V TTL Interface ..................................................................................................................... 37
BAND DATA Interface .................................................................................................................... 38
12.5 Ten – Tec, Flex-Radio, Elecraft ....................................................................................................... 38
CAT RS232 Interface ....................................................................................................................... 38
ALC with Flex-Radio. .................................................................................................................... 39
12.6 Transceivers of other Brands ........................................................................................................... 40
13. OTHER CONNECTIONS ........................................................................................................................ 41
13.1 ALC, Relay Connections ................................................................................................................. 41
13.2 Remote- ON Link ............................................................................................................................. 41
13.3 Connections / TX-INH, TX-INH ..................................................................................................... 42
13.4 AUX Connector ............................................................................................................................... 44
13.5 PORT Connector .............................................................................................................................. 45
SteppIR cable: .................................................................................................................................. 45
Ultrabeam cable: .............................................................................................................................. 46
Serial connection to a standard PC RS-232 port for remoting use ......................................................... 46
14. TRANSCEIVER CONTROLLED WITH A PC ......................................................................................... 47
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