[Elecraft] ECN 21 May 06

[Fred Jensen]

Well, as the propagation gods would see to it, Kevin was 589 on 20m when 
he started to call the net and announced his need to QRT and ground his 
antennas due to large electrical displays overhead.

On the other hand, he was 439 on 40m when I was about to QNI.  I've got 
some problem in the KAT100 or the K2/100 on 40 because it appears to 
tune and work fine until I send for a little bit, and then the SWR (as 
displayed by the KAT100) goes berserk and everything shuts down.  It 
happens with the KAT100 on, and with it in CAL mode when I use the 
outboard antenna tuner.  Everything works OK at 800W with the 
TS-850/SB220, so I'm not thinking of a problem in the DX Engineering 
balun at the bottom of the tower.  Besides, it's rated at 10KW and 14KV. 
  Kinda thinking it's RF somewhere where it shouldn't be, but haven't 
had time to look into it.  I'll take the KAT100 out of the system and 
see what happens.

Anyway, I tried.

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw