[Elecraft] Funny K4 Story

[Alan Bloom]

I believe the SWR meter in the transceiver is at the input of the 
internal tuner, not the output.  Since it always reads close to 1:1 when 
the tuner is engaged you may not notice if the antenna has a high SWR.

Alan N1AL


On 5/16/2021 5:10 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> The K4 shows all four TX bar graphs simultaneously:  power, SWR, ALC, and compression. In addition you can select numeric display of power, SWR, supply voltage and current drain for the status area, which defaults to date/time.
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> Wayne
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>> On May 16, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Ray <wa6vab at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> My K3 has a SWR display next to the RF Power meter in the Display.
>> So it Sounds like the K4 Does Not have that type of Display ?
>>
>> WA6VAB  K3
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>>> On May 16, 2021, at 11:04 AM, Tom Doligalski via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> I normally would have noticed the change in SWR, and realized that I had an antenna problem. But, of course, I had tuned the K4 for the first time on 80M when I received it!
>>>
>>> A learning moment (operator error?). Gonna try to check the antennas out a bit more frequently!
>>>
>>> 73, Tom W4KX
>>>