[Elecraft] Antennas and Output Power - KPA-1500

N4ZR n4zr at comcast.net
Thu Oct 15 15:17:11 EDT 2020


I have two antennas for 40M, a Carolina Windom and a full-wave parasitic 
sloper, the latter fed through a 4:1 balun.  The 1500's tuner handles 
both antennas nicely, and I have trained it on both of them, but when I 
switch from the Windom to the sloper (on an external antenna switch), 
the output power changes from ~1400 watts to nearly 1700, often 
triggering a high current fault.  Any way around that?

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