[Elecraft] KAT500 Re-Tuning

[Byron Peebles]

I will put the antenna analyzer on it tomorrow and make sure it's still 
solid after all this wind.

On 11/14/2015 11:31 PM, Byron Peebles wrote:
> M2 Log Periodic flat from bottom to top.
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> 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.
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