[Elecraft] KAT500 Tracking of K3 VFO

[Fred Jensen]

I don't want to belabor this but I do want to understand, this is sort 
of "science" so it therefore must be hard :-)  All this assumes MAN mode 
which is what I run in.

1.  There are defined band segments where the KAT500 stores matching 
solutions if trained, by antenna port.

2.  If a band segment/port hasn't been "trained," the 500 will go to the 
nearest frequency for which a solution *has* been trained, regardless of 
where [freq] that might be.

3.  I can train it in any segment I want to, likely based on the BW of 
my antennas and when I need to.  If I don't train it in a segment, it 
doesn't matter, the 500 will still use the nearest match.

If this is all true, please tell me and I will be a Happy Ham!  Actually 
I am now, it works.

I probably need to stop reading about everyones' problems.

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 10:54 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote:
> If your antenna tuner settings at nearby frequencies are similar,
> they don't all need to be present.  The ATU searches left and right
> of the tune freq for the first non-empty memory.  But if there is a
> stale entry from a prior antenna, it looks just as good for a Memory
> recall tune.