[Elecraft] [K3, KAT3] ATU icon

[Gary Dezern]

The K3 owners manual contains the following text:

The ATU icon will flash briefly whenever new settings are automatically loaded.

I've never noticed this flashing and I'm curious why not.  The ATU is set to "auto", and I'll go to the bottom of the CW portion of the 20m band and tap "atu tune" so the antenna tunes.  No flashing, but it tunes down to 1:1.  Then I'll jump into the middle of the voice portion of the band where I've previous tuned up, but no flashing.  I'll hit "ATU TUNE" and it gets down to 1:1 again.  Then jump back to the exact frequency at the bottom of 20m, and still no flashing.  

Same thing jumping bands... The "ATU" icon never flashes.  However, it SEEMS that the ATU it switching in the proper tune...  There just isn't any real indication of that until I transmit.

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Gary  / k3wow