[Elecraft] K1: KAT1 R2 (REFL) Position

Morrow, Michael A. [email protected]
Mon Dec 16 20:13:31 2002


Wayne Burdick wrote of the K2's KAT100 SWR circuit adjustment:

> Advancing the pot 20% improves SWR measurement accuracy.
> It compensates for an inherent underestimation of reflected
> power by any Bruene-style bridge with a resistor at the
> center tap of the transformer.

Would this philosophy not also apply then to the K1's KAT1 for setting R2,
since it uses an fundamentally identical SWR detection circuit?  My KAT1
manual says to visually set R2 to the same position as R1.  It would seem
appropriate then to set R2 a bit further clockwise than R1 is set.

Mike / KK5F