[Elecraft] Dusting off the old K3 & Considering a KAT3A
Drew AF2Z
pubx1 at af2z.net
Thu Aug 31 22:17:17 EDT 2017
An antenna current meter is pretty handy. I have a box of parts on my
desk waiting to become one. At least when it shows zero current I'll be
able to figure out pretty quickly that I forgot to connect the antenna,
hehhe..
73,
Drew
AF2Z
On 08/31/17 18:09, Bill Frantz wrote:
> Sorry Jim. You are indeed correct about the feedline SWR. While there
> are other SWRs within the radio, they aren't of much interest.
>
> However, these radios do report a SWR in the UI, and that is what I was
> referring to. Since a naive user might look at that figure and say, "The
> SWR is 2. The antenna must be good.", it is important to know that the
> tuners can produce a low figure on that meter with nothing connected to
> the antenna connector.
>
> 73 Bill AE6JV
>
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