[Elecraft] KPA500-KAT500 tuning settings

[Jim Brown]

On 5/9/2021 9:09 PM, Wes wrote:
> But back to the issue at hand.  If I'm tuned up and working on 20-meters 
> but want to quickly listen to 10-meters for instance, why should I have 
> to transmit on 10 just to switch antennas?

It's an auto antenna tuner, with memories that, hopefully, have been 
trained. So it's no trick to tune the rig to 10M, hit a dit to recall 
that memory, tune around (or study the waterfall if you have one), and 
either stay there or tune the rig back to where you were, hit another 
dit to recall that memory, and you're rolling.

I have an SO2R station, with multiple antennas and auto-switching of 
many of them based on band-data. So it's no trick to listen on the other 
radio. And I also have other RX antennas I can use. Each of us builds as 
much of a station as we want and can afford and/or have the energy and 
space for. Even on a Chicago city lot, I had two tri-band dipoles for 
20-15-10 (one with traps, the other a fan), and another loaded dipole 
that I could use on 40, 80, 160, and most of the WARC bands. None were 
higher than 40 ft.

73, Jim K9YC