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499.5 kHz QTX

again a page full continuous decodes of WE6XGR  Sunday morning. only 1 time decoded   partly  WE2XGR/2  in FN31LS weak signals  -17dB  as best only  Overall propagation weak.  In the WAERTTY  low activity 0148 -25  1.8   0.499500  0 WE6XGR FN12 50 0154 -27  2.4   0.499450  0 <...> FN31LS 47 0204 -25  1.8   0.499500  0 WE6XGR FN12 50 testing my QTX  500kHz  I have used that one before at 502.4 kHz in 2010 The first power on the 6.3A fuse was blown. Already lost 2 IRF540 while testing the output on a dummy load trying to tune down to 475 kHz  gave high currents and lost the IRF540 at 500 it seems  to work okay. If  I can believe my power meter the output is well over 100W at 6A 24V input  never had that much output from this simple but genius design. But the IRF540 can not handle this level and breaks down after 10seconds   good that I have got some spares but it puzzles me how could I have used this in 2010 for WSPR  without failure so long WSPR  having 2min. T

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