[Elecraft] KAT500 usage model?

[Don Wilhelm]

Jim,

The answer to your question is steeped in the many requests for the 
KAT500 - Each station has its own set of antennas.  Some do have all 
resonant antennas and do not need the tuner, but that does not seem to 
be the majority - thus the demand for the KAT500.  In the meantime, some 
are using manual tuners or are restricting their operation to those 
bands where their antennas are resonant.

I would suggest that the answers vary "all over the board".  In my 
particular case, I run resonant antennas due to an agreement with the 
XYL when we married - she said she did not want to see antennas or 
feedlines when coming up the driveway.  That has been accomplished, but 
at the expense of long feedlines (150 feet minimum, 220 feet typical), 
so I keep the SWR low at the antenna field end of things and use 
resonant antennas.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/17/2012 7:59 PM, Jim Miller wrote:
> What sort of feedline and antennas are folks expecting to use with the
> KAT500?
>
> I assume OPs want this because they are running more than a barefoot K3/100.
>
> Are folks running 500w at elevated SWR on "normal" coax (e.g. davis bury
> flex), open wire line or 7/8" hardline into the shack?
>
> I assume that much of the 500w usage is into nominally resonant antennas.
> What other types of non-resonant antennas are in use at this wattage level
> that would need such a tuner in the shack?
>
>