[Elecraft] KAT500 Re-Tuning

[Bill Frantz]

Not to mention the losses in the tuner itself. My K3 can almost 
match on open antenna connection. If I were to transmit, guess 
where all the power would go.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 11/14/15 at 2:34 PM, jim at audiosystemsgroup.com (Jim Brown) wrote:

>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.

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