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6300 High SWR fault protection

Alan Nusso, N4BV
Alan Nusso, N4BV Member
edited June 2017 in FLEX-6000 Signature Series
Does anyone know if the 6300 has automatic fault protection for excessive high SWR? Will it stop transmitting to protect itself if the SWR exceeds a certain point?

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  • Tim - W4TME
    Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    edited June 2017
    Yes.  If the reflected power is high enough.
  • km9r.mike
    km9r.mike Member ✭✭
    edited July 2015

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    I was looking for an answer while you replied. I do not doubt your answer but what I found seems conflicting because it implies a manual intervention. I was also gonna say I think my flex has auto shut down once for a temporary excessive high swr event but was looking for documentation to back that up before I did.

  • WA6FXT Mike
    WA6FXT Mike Member ✭✭
    edited September 2016

    I'm ashamed to say this... But, I can tell you that 100W on 20M into a retracted SteppIR caused my F6700 to protect itself from my stupidity by rolling the power back to almost 0 (zero) while the SWR was hard into the 3.0 on the 6700's scale! (I didn't even look at the indicator for about 3 calls on a net) 

    Shame, shame... GREAT Radio!


    73's all

    de Mike WA6FXT


  • Terry T
    Terry T Member
    edited July 2015

    I have done the same with 40 and 80 antenna's switched, how **** can I be.

    Terry

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