[Elecraft] K3 Internal tuner

[Bill Frantz]

You can use a manual tuner with an antenna analyser. The low 
power of the analyser stays under the power limit for outside 
the ham bands and lets you read SWR on the SWL frequency. I 
don't know if you can manually tune the internal tuner, but if 
you can, it will probably remember the solution the next time 
you switch to that frequency.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 11/14/12 at 10:09 AM, k6dgw at foothill.net (Fred Jensen) wrote:

>On 11/13/2012 5:45 PM, Phil wrote:
>>I'm thinking of purchasing the K3 with internal tuner and the general
>>coverage front end, my question is will the tuner tune on receive outside of
>>the ham bands. It would be nice to tune a long wire for Short Wave
>>listening. Thanks, Phil ZL1PB.
>
>Automatically, I don't think so.  You have to feed the KAT3 
>[and all autotuners] power to get them to tune and the K3 won't 
>transmit outside the ham bands.  I think you can go in and 
>fiddle with the L/C manually, I don't know how, never done it.  
>The gen coverage filter set works really well way outside of 
>the ham bands.
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