[Elecraft] re KPA 500 and ATU

[n5ge at n5ge.com]

Where did you get the room to put up a G5RV antenna?  Aren't they 102 feet long?

I live on a lot whose back yard is 80 feet wide and 50 feet deep.  Before I put
my tower up I had an inverted vee array of antennas that were resonant from 80m
to 10m including the WARC bands.  The inverted vees all had the same feed point
on one 40 foot pole with a rope and pully, allowing the use of one coax at the
rig and the Alpha 87A.

From the prospective of folks like me, people who lock themselves into using
antennas that rely on tuners for matching their antennas may have overlooked a
better solution for their desire to have multiband wire antennas.

That's probably not the case in your situation, but those who have the room to
do that will find that it is one way to have a resonant antenna on all the
bands.

I hope you find a solution to your antenna situation without resorting to
blaming Elecraft for it.

73 and good luck in the hobby,

Tom, N5GE

On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 09:01:47 -0400 (EDT), N6FB at aol.com wrote:

>For many of us who are constrained to one non-resonant antenna and  work 
>multiple bands, we are presently running amps with built-in ATU  
>functionality.  All of the discussion on bypassing external relay boxes,  etc, is of 
>value to those who are lucky enough to have space for multiple  antennas, but 
>for those of us with one G5RV, it is academic.
> 
>>From the perspective of folks like me, Elecraft has either made a  goof, or 
>a brilliant marketing decision in releasing the amp before the matching  
>ATU.  I will not be ordering the amp until the ATU is available, which is a  
>bummer for me, but it self-limits the demand for the amp and avoids a pileup 
>of  unfilled orders, which, I am guessing, was the original strategy.
> 
>When can we expect the ATU?
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