[Elecraft] KPA-1500 tuner question

[Peter Dougherty]

Hi all,
Something I noticed this past weekend in the contest about the KPA1500,
especially on 80 and 160, where the internal tuner was needed on antennas
that were above ~1.5:1 SWR. When I changed frequencies into a range that
required retuning, I had to manually press the ATU control and initiate a
tune sequence, or else when I was auto-sending CW my call would get cut off
as the tuner set its needed values.

Since I'd memorized the entire band(s) ahead of time, is there a way for the
memorized tuning solutions to load on QSY, rather than on RF application? It
really slowed me down as I was S&Ping my way through the low bands on Friday
night.

 

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73 and Good DX
Peter, W2IRT



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