[Elecraft] K3 Internal Tuner and 43' Vertical

[K4SC]

I ran my K3 with internal autotuner on the DX Engineering 43' fast-taper
vertical with their 4:1 UNUN with excellent results on 40 meters and up.  I
tried a couple of local qso's on 75 and it worked ok, but I was only running
100watts on a KW band.  I tried loading on 160 meters and think it did load,
but the QRN was so bad I never tried to make any contacts.

This was all at my Arizona QTH where the vertical was my only option.  I
replaced my Butternut vertical with the 43' vertical and definitely thought
it was the better antenna.  Ground field was poultry netting spread out in
an X pattern about 30' on each side.  If I could hear it, I generally could
work it.  Again all done with 100Watts.  You refer to the Elecraft tuner for
the KPA-500, I don't know there is one, yet.

Good Luck

Chuck K4SC, York SC

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