[Elecraft] K3 from 100W to QRP

David Ferrington, M0XDF M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk
Wed Jan 16 12:08:19 EST 2008


It does display the SWR on VFOA display when you hold TUNE, but only at 2W+.

On 16/1/08 16:57, "G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com> sent:

> One thing I miss. On the K2, ATU bypass was CAL S, so I got a digital SWR
> reading when I was tuning. That was handy because it is much easier to
> detect the perfect match using a digital readout than trying to detect the
> null in the reflected power meter of the tuner. In ATU BYPASS mode the K3
> doesn't display the SWR, though presumably it's still measuring it so the PA
> can protect itself from extreme mismatches in bypass mode.

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