[Elecraft] KPA500/KAT500

[G4GNX - Alan]

Thanks Jim.

It may have sounded ignorant, but I was concerned that there might be RFI 
and RF in the shack issues, although I couldn't see how MFJ allowed for this 
and they obviously don't. :-)

I will probably sell the MFJ 998 as it has shortcomings for me. It refuses 
to tune out a bad SWR on some bands and although it
should tune with as little as 5 watts, it occasionally insists on QRO from 
the IC7100 which is fixed at 10 watts for tuning.

Obviously the K3 is far superior and allows the user to specify a "sensible" 
tuning power and it also seems to almost tune fresh air.

73,

Alan. G4GNX

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Brown
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:00 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500/KAT500

On Thu,9/17/2015 9:31 AM, G4GNX - Alan wrote:
> Does the KAT500 have the capability to tune a random wire, even just 
> connected to the center of a SO239

Of course -- that's how almost any tuner would do it.

> or are there other ways of achieving this?

No

73, Jim K9YC