[Elecraft] K3 KAT3 forgets settings

[Gary Gregory]

If you have EZ_K3< do a plot on your antenna on one band, then try the ATU.
If you have an antenna that is fed by open wire line for example there will
be subtle changes in the antenna at different times and this will lead to
"incorrect" the settings remembered by the tuner.

I find this is repeatable on my Double extended 40M Zepp for example.

The beam is always correct but then the swr is never above 1.5:1 on each
band (measured by an analyser) so the tuner does not have to retune.

YMMV
Gary

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:03 AM, lstavenhagen <lstavenhagen at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi Don,
>
> No, I think the tuner is retaining the settings, as verified on my lunch
> hour the SWR of my cheezy indoor ant was changing by itself but the L/C
> settings listed for the tuner were staying the same. At least at the two
> freqs. I recorded the settings for on 20 and 40.
>
> So that's the smoking gun like I said that it's something else. Could be
> someone moving their fridge in the next apt or something. I was being a bad
> QA dude and not doing proper troubleshooting, seems like the tuner is
> working normally....
>
> This is ridiculous - I need to get a good ant.....
>
> Tnx es 73,
> LS
> W5QD
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Gary
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