[Elecraft] [K3] KAT3 and 160 with 40m long doublet

[Wes Stewart]

Sort of sounds logical.... but it's wrong.

Let the load in the shack be 50 +j1000.

A low-pass L-net with a shunt Xc = -j501 and series Xl = j1000 will do it.

Wes  N7WS

--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> As you mentioned, the matching range of the KAT3 becomes
> greater as the 
> frequency is increased.
> That fact is often overlooked by many hams.  It is all
> about the amount 
> of L and C available in the tuner, but the inductive or
> capacitive 
> reactance is really what counts in producing the
> match.  If the 
> feedpoint in the shack has 1000 ohms of inductive
> reactance, and the 
> tuner has only 600 ohms capacitive reactance to attempt to
> cancel that 
> inductance, then a match will never happen.