[Elecraft] KX-3 4092

paulb xtr348165 at xtra.co.nz
Tue May 13 00:35:22 EDT 2014


Hi Folks

Owned a KX3 for a while but never used portable until recently.
Antenna is a 40m dipole, coax fed. Nothing exotic.

For some reason the KX3 tuner has a problem getting a good match.
It settles on something like 1.8/1 which is not big deal except other
transcievers show near perfect match around 7.1megs.

Latest firmware ver loaded.

Now here is the odd part; above 7260 fast perfect match.
Move down 1khz to 7259 and the tuner won't match correctly.

On a 50 ohm dummy load tuner is faultless.

Some thing I noted is the VSWR reading on the KX3 seems out of line with
other equipment. 

Not sure what the story is ?


in the meantime the KX3 is back on the shelf, 
my K2 built several years ago is doing splendid service 

cheers

Paul b 
zl1ajy








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