[Elecraft] Problem on the first weekend...

[Rick Tavan]

If you tune the antenna to low SWR, as you did, then you don't need the internal ATU. Set it to Bypass and be happy. Use the ATU only with poorly matched antennas.

73,

Rick

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Rick Tavan

On Jun 16, 2013, at 2:08 PM, "Bill Blomgren \(kk4qdz\)" <billblomgren at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well.. I have the buddypole set up on the porch in back.. and was doing some attempts to hear.... and explore the bands.
>  
> Well, I limited operations to 20 meters... and the tuner said it was running a 1.0:1 or 1.1:1.... so I got that very close...
>  
> I went into the menu system, and noticed that the ATU setting was set to "not installed" - which wasn't the case.  Set that to auto... and then things went downhill.
>  
> I tried to do a atu operation, and the system told me that there was a problem with transmitter calibration.  I built the dummy load I bought with the radio, checked that, and it was a nice 50 ohm load.  Plugged that in and attempted to do the power calibration... and got an error...  Doing the same thing via the computer today.. same error.
>  
> The system failed to reach the expected power level on 1.9 mh.
>  
> Before even considering transmitting with the rig, I had dialed the power down to 0, but that didn't seem to impact the tuner at all.
>  
> Now, I get a d=0000 
> err txc   and when I tap the tune button I get 
>  
> err tx5
>  
> I did a reset (power on plus the PBT pressed.) -- Reset the atu setting to bypassed.  went and tried the tune again, and got the same errors.
>  
> Has anyone seen that in the past?  I hate to think something died before I could even transmit.  <sigh>  
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