[Elecraft] [K2] Tuning a magloop with KAT100

[Bill Frantz]

I had the same experience with the Little Tarheel II on my 
4Runner. I was running S&P on 80 meters and as I swept the band, 
every time I sent my call to a new station, I was also peaking 
up the antenna tuning.

There's a nice article in the latest QEX on automatically tuning 
these kinds of antennas. "Using an Arduino to Automatically Tune 
an MFJ-1788 Magnetic Loop Antenna and Elecraft KX3 Transceiver" 
Elwood Downey, WB0OEW (November-December, 2015).

73 Bill AE6JV

On 11/30/15 at 11:35 AM, wa6nhc at gmail.com (Rick WA6NHC) wrote:

>... is so narrow that typical S&P ops are rather challenging, 
>you're never tuned for that new frequency.  As one that changes 
>bands often and quickly, it would severely hamper how I 
>operate.  Tuning requires patience and time on the lower bands, 
>even a 20 KHz frequency change requires retuning.
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