[Elecraft] Relay life in KAT2?

Wallace, Andy [email protected]
Mon Jun 23 12:27:01 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe P [mailto:[email protected]]
>=20
> I was wondering how long those little=20
> relays will last under "normal" use.  They seem to go through=20
> up to 10  seconds of very intense chatter when I tune up.=20

Just a reminder - you don't have to retune the KAT1/KAT2/KAT100
unless you change frequency on a particular band by a large amount,
or change your antenna setup (operate portable, demo, etc.). The
tuners all memorize the last-tuned setting, and will recall this
on powerup and band change - so once it's done, you should only
hear a brief click as it recalls.

That's one big advantage over other relay tuners!

Now one thing I've thought about is using the KAT2 second ant
connector like this: use ANT1 for the CW portion of all bands,
and use the ANT2 jack for the SSB one. Since the KAT2 stores
settings for each antenna, it would be like having two antenna
tuner memories for each band (assuming I remembered to move
my single antenna over).=20

It would be nice if a firmware upgrade could do this...set a menu
item such that ANT2 leaves the relay switched for ANT1 but the
tuner brings up the second set of L/C settings.

Andy