[Elecraft] Funny K4 Story

[Jim Rhodes]

With internal tuners on everything I have stopped using power/SWR meters on
my rigs. If you are matching your antenna before you get to the meter the
meter just won't tell you anything useful. I suppose I could put one
between the KPA500 and the KAT500 But I don't use it often and the KPA has
the barograph meters as well as the digital display anyway.

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:44 AM Tom Azlin W7SUA <tom at w7sua.org> wrote:

> I have an external meter on each of my antenna feedlines so I know the
> actual SWR for each antenna. Also see a difference in the reported power
> out on my (still) K3 versus the power reported on the external SWR/PWR
> meter.
>
> Tom w7sua
>
> On 5/16/2021 4:40 PM, Alan Bloom wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> >> Wayne
> >> N6KR
> >>
> >> ----
> >> elecraft.com
> >>
> >>> On May 16, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Ray <wa6vab at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> 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
> >>>>
> >
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