[Elecraft] KAT500 Auto or Manual

[Bill Frantz]

Is there a way of tuning the any of the Elecraft tuners outside 
the legal transmission bands? I can imagine hooking an antenna 
analyzer through the tuner and using the analyzer to know which 
C, L, and Relay values are the best match. But I don't think any 
of the Elecraft turners have a UI to set those values when 
running the experiment.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 11/18/17 at 1:17 PM, k6dgw at foothill.net (Fred Jensen) wrote:

>The KAT500 memories cover the range 1500 KHz to 60.0 MHz, no 
>gaps, in a series of "bins".  Each bin holds capacitor and 
>inductor values, relay settings, antenna connector selection, 
>and a couple of other values.  Each bin covers a bandwidth 
>that is a function of frequency.  The lower bands are narrow 
>and the BW of a bin increases as you go up in frequency.
>
>For 80 meters, the bins are 20 KHz wide, and there are 90 of 
>them from 3001 KHz to 4800 KHz.  Most of the higher frequency 
>bands [40 thru 15] have 50 KHz bins. 12 and 10 are 100 KHz, and 
>I believe 6 is 200 KHz.  So, to "train" your KAT500:
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