[Elecraft] Sound Damper??

[WØIFL]

Oh come on now... Why would you want to quiet down such a robust, powerful
sound?
I don't have the KAT-100 <<yet>> but I do have the LDG. I freaked when I
first tuned up and heard the relays grinding away, now I kinda like it!  To
me, it sounds like "Here we go!  I'm ready to get on the air!"  It has a
"tough" in yer face sound to me.

If I don't hear that  "Quarter-Cruncher" sound, as I've come to call it... I
start to think something is wrong! Usually, I am already tuned for that
band, or I don't have the toggle switch in the Auto - tune position.

Recently, I made a contact with the Marconi Special Event station DURING
tune-up!  I had tuned on low power, and when I went to high power and
answered a QRZ? my tuner decided to start crunching those quarters again!  I
quickly put the tuner into semi-auto mode and finished the QSO with a pretty
high SWR,  luckily, the QSO was short as there was quite a pile-up.  We got
through, me and my K2. First Try.

If you listen on the bands, you can hear more and more ops are using this
kind of tuner.  They have a specific sound and not at all like the rising /
falling amplitude CW tone of an "analog" type tuner.  When you hear one, it
sounds a lot like it does when you operate one.  You can hear the relays
switching in and out, searching for a match.



RonE
WØIFL
K2 #2133 still version "A"