[Elecraft] UPDATE KPA1500 on 160M

[Adrian]

Yes I have seen that, very good point, and I was also thinking about the 
lmr400 length earlier in the thread.

I felt that Ronnie may not warm to that idea, so did not mention it.

It is a bit of hit and miss sometimes with that solution, but once 
there, your done.


On 3/9/20 11:41 am, James Bennett via Elecraft wrote:
> Ronnie,
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> I’m kinda late to this dance, but did want to toss in my thoughts. I assume you are running a length of beefy coax from the back of the KPA1500 to the balun. I do the same with my KPA500/KAT500. About 10 feet of 9913 coax to the Balun Designs box, then 110 feet of 600 ohm line to the antenna feed point. I initially had a very ugly SWR on 20 meters that the KAT500 balked at; the other bands were fine. Changing the length of the coax between the tuner and the balun cured the problem - I went from 20 feet (a convenient piece of coax I had lying around) to 10 feet. If you’ve got some other lengths of coax available, you might want to try switching them in / out - might be easier than chopping the ladder line.
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> 73, Jim / W6JHB
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