[Elecraft] KAT500 - how loud when tuning?

[Fred Jensen]

You can hear it, and it's louder than the KAT3 100W tuner in the K3, but 
it's quieter than any other high-powered auto-tuner I've used.  I have 3 
antennas, all multi-band [but not all the same bands].  I went through 
all the segments on all bands, and tuned the appropriate antennas 
[KAT500 "remembers" settings on a frequency/antenna basis].

For each band, one antenna is designated "preferred," and if another 
will also work on that band, it is secondary.  Antennas that don't work 
on a particular band are disabled in the tuner.  It's really slick and I 
don't think I've run an auto-tune cycle in months.  Just QSY and hit the 
key.  Where I have two antennas, I can switch instantly between them 
just by tapping the ANT switch.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013
- www.cqp.org

On 5/24/2013 3:04 AM, Jon  Hellan wrote:
> I've got the LDG AT-600Pro. It does what I need it to do, but it's
> awfully loud when it cannot recall a setting from memory. How much
> noise does the KAT500 make?