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Index
IMPORTANT ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
HOW TO READ THIS MANUAL ........................................................................................................................ 5
PRECAUTIONS .................................................................................................................................................. 5
UNPACKING ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
1. PANEL DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................................. 9
1.1 Front Panel ........................................................................................................................................ 9
1.2 Rear Panel ....................................................................................................................................... 10
2. GENERAL INFORMATION .................................................................................................................... 11
2.1 Power supply ................................................................................................................................... 11
2.2 Input / Output .................................................................................................................................. 11
2.3 ALC / RELAY / CAT ....................................................................................................................... 11
3. INTERCONNECTION WITH THE TRANSCEIVER ................................................................................. 13
4. USE OF THE LINEAR AMPLIFIER ........................................................................................................ 14
4.1 SO2R (Single Operator Two Radio ) ................................................................................................. 15
4.2 Band-Pass Filters Set “SPE BPF1” .................................................................................................... 17
4.3 QSK (Full Break-In) Operation ......................................................................................................... 18
4.4 Tunable Antenna Control ................................................................................................................ 19
4.5 Setting Up of an Antenna for Reception only ................................................................................ 20
4.6 Can also be used on 5 MHz ............................................................................................................... 21
4.7 Two Possible Sets of Antennas (Bank A or Bank B) ............................................................................ 22
4.8 Predistortion .................................................................................................................................... 22
5. EXTERNAL GROUND CONNECTION .................................................................................................. 23
6. ANTENNA ............................................................................................................................................. 24
7. POWER SUPPLY (PSU) ..................................................................................................................... 25
8. TUNER (ATU) ..................................................................................................................................... 27
9. PROTECTIONS / ALARMS .................................................................................................................... 29
10. PROGRAMMING ................................................................................................................................... 30
10.1 Ways to operate ............................................................................................................................... 30
11. INITIAL OPERATION OF THE AMPLIFIER .......................................................................................... 33
11.1 Initial Programming.......................................................................................................................... 33
11.2 Operating ......................................................................................................................................... 36
Setting Driving Levels .................................................................................................................... 36
12. CONNECTIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 38
12.1 CAT 1 / CAT 2 Connectors ............................................................................................................. 38
12.2 Icom ................................................................................................................................................ 39
CAT CI–V Interface ......................................................................................................................... 39
12.3 Kenwood ......................................................................................................................................... 42
CAT RS232 Interface ....................................................................................................................... 42
CAT 5V TTL Interface ..................................................................................................................... 42
12.4 Yaesu .............................................................................................................................................. 43
CAT RS232 Interface ....................................................................................................................... 43
CAT 5V TTL Interface ..................................................................................................................... 43
15.5 BAND DATA Interface .................................................................................................................... 44
12.6 Ten – Tec, Flex-Radio, Elecraft ....................................................................................................... 44
CAT RS232 Interface ....................................................................................................................... 44
12.7 ALC with Flex-Radio (other SDR, Elecraft) ..................................................................................... 45
12.8 Transceivers without CAT................................................................................................................. 46
13. OTHER CONNECTIONS ........................................................................................................................ 47
13.1 ALC, Relay Connections ................................................................................................................. 47
13.2 Remote- ON Link ............................................................................................................................. 47
13.3 Connections TX-INH, / TX-INH...................................................................................................... 48
13.4 AUX Connector ............................................................................................................................... 50
13.5 PORT Connector .............................................................................................................................. 51
SteppIR cable: .................................................................................................................................. 51
Ultrabeam cable: .............................................................................................................................. 52
Serial connection to a standard PC RS-232 port for remoting use.......................................................... 52
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