[Elecraft] KAT500 - how loud when tuning?

[Gary Gregory]

Regardless of the 'rattle' of the kat500, once done on all bands needed,
the result is you only get a 'click' on band change and qsy if a new bin
memory is asserted.

Other than those instances the kat500 is quiet.

Not sure what all the fuss is about...it is what it is.....:-)

73

On 25 May 2013 07:01, george fritkin <georgefritkin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It is not nearly quiet as my Palstar auto
>
> George,W6GF
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net>
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 - how loud when tuning?
>
>
> 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?
>
>
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