[Elecraft] ATU1 Help!

[Timothy Gordish]

After enjoying my K1 for about a year, I decided to add the ATU1 so that 
I can more easily use it in the field with a random wire antenna.   I 
just finished it tonight and it seemed simple enough to build.  But of 
course it has those nasty toroids which I never seem to have any luck 
with.  Well it went through all the checks just fine, but when I finally 
tried to tune up the dumby load it didn't work.  The relays clicked and 
chattered but the SWR remained at 9.9 and when the chattering stopped I 
got a reading of P L o.  Doesn't make much sense to me since the rig 
seems to be transmitting just fine according to my wattmeter.

Any ideas from the peanut gallery what I have done wrong?  My first 
thought was bad toroids so I did a resistance check on the pads and they 
all tested good, then I heated up the solder joints one more time for 
extra measure.  Still no joy.

Tim Gordish

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