[Elecraft] KPA-1500 tuner question

Jim Miller jtmiller47 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 22:45:13 EST 2019


With updated firmware and an aux cable this should be happening. 

Jim ab3cv 

On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:42 PM, Nr4c <nr4c at widomaker.com> wrote:

Put the ATU in Man mode. 

Sent from my iPhone
...nr4c. bill


> On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:36 PM, Peter Dougherty <lists at w2irt.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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> Peter, W2IRT
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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