[Elecraft] Problem with KAT2?

[Kevin Cozens]

On 13-07-10 10:42 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> There is one possibility that your 51 ohm load (measured at DC) is not a
> good 51 ohm pure resistance at the frequency you were measuring.  Borrow an
> antenna analyzer and test your load at the frequency of operation.

I seem to have thrown people off by including the mention of tuning the KAT2 
with a dummy load attached as it is not relevant to the problem. I stated 
that I set the K2 to calS mode which is supposed to put the KAT2 in to 
bypass mode according to the manual. The only effect the KAT2 should have on 
the incoming signal should be minimal based on stray L/C. The 10 fold drop 
in signal just doesn't seem right to me.

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Kevin.

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