[Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Windy,

What sort of arrangement are you using to connect the feeder to the antenna?

Do you get a lot of wind-blown dust / sand during the dry weather, some of 
which might be staying on the feeder until most is washed off by rain.

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD


Windy KM5Q wrote on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 4:38 AM

> Here's another question:  I have a dipole with 200 feet of window-line
> feed. It works great with the ATU.  When it's wet, I have to re-tune,
> then it's fine again.
>
> I've tuned it at lots of spots in some favorite bands during dry
> weather (most of the time in New Mexico). But on a rainy day, I end up
> retuning frequencies here and there. Next sunny day, does the system
> detune me when I run into a previously "wet-tuned" segment?
>
> Oddly, I haven't observed this, but I don't understand why.
>
> Windy KM5Q