[Elecraft] KX-3 4092

[Phil Wheeler]

Have you put an antenna analyzer on that antenna?

73, Phil w7ox

On 5/12/14, 9:35 PM, paulb wrote:
> 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