[Elecraft] 80m KPA1500 High reflected power problems

[Jim Brown]

> Peter Dougherty W2IRT wrote:
>
> HI guys,
> I'm still having a serious problem on 80m with my KPA1500.
>
> With the amp inline I'm getting high reflected power fault everywhere below
> about 3675. My antenna (an inverted vee) is resonant at 3550, and the SWR is
> below 2:1 from 3500 to 3630.

Hi Peter,

The KPA 1500 has a built-in antenna tuner. Is it possible that it's not 
set up, or is not set up correctly, or is not being used correctly?  
Perhaps the wrong operating mode for it, or it's calling up wrong 
memorized settings?  I don't own one, but borrowed one from K6XX while 
he was at WRTC. I mostly used it on 6M, plus the few hours 20M was open 
to DL enough to work the WRTC stations.

73, Jim K9YC