[Elecraft] K2 ATU

[Art Horne]

Greetins all,

Just getting my feet wet with the K2 and it's ATU.  I ran into a problem
(for me) that I'm curious about.  I have been loading up my antenna ok in a
temprary location with good SWR.  I then put it in the attic and when I
tried to tune it (looking at power out) I couldn't get anything but a 100%
reflection on all bands.  Of course, I assumed I had shorted or opened the
coax when I shortened my cables.  As it turned out the rig didn't cause the
ATU to re-tune when I hit the tune button because the ATU had been selected
to read Power Out.  When I switched it back to Auto it retuned ok on each
band and then when I went to Power Out everything was fine.  I had assumed
when you select "TUNE" that it woud do just that.  Apparently I was wrong.
Should it have?  Where was my thinking wrong?

Love this rig and am anxious to actually get it on the air.  It's beev over
45 years since I've been on the HF bands.  I'm actually trying to get my
code speed up to where I can try that.  I got my General in 1954 and I
haven't used CW since but amazingly enough I still remember it, just way too
slow at it!!!  My biggest problem is punctuation throws me off right now.

Thanks for any replies.

73

Art K6KFH