[Elecraft] KAT500 Re-Tuning

[Byron Peebles]

M2 Log Periodic flat from bottom to top.

On 11/14/2015 05:34 PM, 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.