[Elecraft] Auto ATU for K3 + Amplifier

[Ken K3IU]

Oop... sorry about the double negative. It should say...
"If you don't have the KAT3 installed, I don't think that tapping the 
"ATU TUNE" button is gonna do anything for you."
73, Ken K3IU

Ken K3IU wrote:
> Hi Mike:
>
> If you don't have the KAT3 installed, I don't think that tapping the 
> "ATU TUNE" button is not gonna do anything for you. However, just to 
> the left of that is the XMIT/TUNE button. In the menu system you can 
> specify the amount of power that will be produced when you press/hold 
> TUNE. A PTT logic output is available in a couple of places on the 
> back (Key Out and in the ACC connector) of the rig which you could use 
> to "trigger" a tune line of your making.
>
> 73,
> Ken K3IU
>
> AD6XY - Mike wrote:
>> Thanks for the responses so far. I am currently using a Z11 auto 
>> tuner at
>> 10W.
>>
>> Can anyone help me with a configuration setting? What I would like to 
>> happen
>> is for something useful to happen when I press the ATU Tune button on 
>> the
>> K3. What it should do is provide a low power signal and toggle a tune 
>> line.
>> So far all I can get it to do it tell me the KAT3 is not installed, 
>> which I
>> know already.
>>
>> Having lived with my K3 for almost 24 hours, I find one of the major 
>> design
>> flaws in the K3 is the lack of antenna outputs for those of us who don't
>> need an ATU built in. for HF only it is understandable, but it is crazy
>> considering the rig does 6m.  The ANT button appears redundant, I am 
>> sure we
>> could have a PCB with two or 3 RF connectors and a relay or two. I am 
>> not
>> sure I really like the way the SO239 is connected - but I suppose it 
>> is only
>> HF... Operating without the right side panel (don't ask) the wire loop
>> certainly picks up lots of local noise from my PC and monitor.
>> Mike
>>   
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