[Elecraft] KAT500 Tracking of K3 VFO

[Fred Jensen]

Hmmm ... I think you may have pointed out a technical difficulty in my 
mind.  I thought the KAT500 divided the bands up into fixed segments and 
I "trained" mine at what I thought was the center of each segment ... 
every 10 KHz on 160, 20 KHz on 80, 50 KHz on 40/30, 100 KHz on 
20/17/15/10, and I don't remember on 6.  If I'm reading your explanation 
right, I should have done it based on the bandwidth of my antennas 
instead?  That would be a lot faster, my method took an afternoon since 
I have more than one antenna for most bands.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 3/1/2014 10:07 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote:

> 2) I don't use Mode AUTO mode. To "train" the tuner (initial setting), I put
> the tuner in mode MAN, then perform step 1) above in several places on each
> band. On bands where my antennas are "sharp" (160 and 80), I do this on
> every 10 kHz (for 160 meters) and every 20 kHz (80 meters). On 40 I tune in
> about five spots, on 20 meters I tune at the bottom, middle, and top of the
> CW and phone segments.  The tuner finds the nearest memory to your current
> frequency. If I didn't tune in enough spaces, I sometimes perform step 1)
> later when I find a spot that I should have trained in the initial step.
> It's important to clear memories on a band where you make significant
> antenna changes, because all the old settings can be used if you don't
> retune in every memory segment.