[Elecraft] KAT500 Re-Tuning

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Sat Nov 14 17:34:49 EST 2015


On Sat,11/14/2015 1:07 PM, Byron Peebles wrote:
> Once I tuned I was good for only about 2KHz.  Any thoughts? Antenna 
> has been fine everywhere else.

What's the antenna? From the symptom, I suspect it's nowhere near 
resonance on 12m, and the KAT500 is jumping through hoops to get power 
into the feedline. And, if the antenna is a poor match to the feedline 
(which is why it would need a lot of tuning), the loss in the feedline 
is likely to be high.

73, Jim K9YC


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