[Elecraft] K3 Antenna 1/2 Operation

[G4ILO]

I am one of the people who requested that the ATU active / bypass settings
could be stored along with ANT 1 / 2. The reason was that the antenna I
don't want the ATU in circuit for is externally tuned. I still need to put
out a tuning signal, and I guess that having the ATU in circuit might
confuse the SWR readings when I am tuning. At the back of my mind I was
probably also thinking that the KAT would auto-retune in the presence of a
high SWR, like the external SGC tuners do.

Even though there is a workaround of tuning the ATU into 50 ohms, I would
still like to have the ATU in / out settings stored. The reason is that I
have to remember which of two TUNE buttons to press depending on which
antenna I am using. If I am using the externally tuned antenna and the ATU
is active and I press ATU TUNE instead of TUNE by mistake, the KAT will try
to match the antenna, and my previous adjustment of it into 50 ohms will be
lost. If the ATU is automatically bypassed when I select the antenna that
doesn't need it, nothing happens if I press the button in error. And believe
me, I often press things in error.

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Julian, G4ILO  K3 s/n: 222 K2 s/n: 392
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