[Elecraft] Need help with kat500 utility

[Richard Donner]

Hi
Well I checked the  antenna and it is just as before the problem.
  Is the capacitor setting normally checked by default?
    This setting was not chosen automatically.

  After I  enabled the capacitor setting the tuner tuned immediately to a
low SWR on the low end of the band.
I noticed that now it is automatically chosen.
This has been a nice study time to figure how this tuner works.  It seems
fine now.
Thanks for  the help  all seems well.

On another note , my k3 has reached its 15  birthday year
Thanks all
Richard


On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 1:48 PM Richard Donner <richarddnnr2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I  have some question about the operate tab in the kat500 utility.
> In the "others"  what should be checked off?
> "caps on the Ant side"
> "amp key interrupt"
> "attenuator"
>   Not sure what these things do.
>
> I had been using my kat500 for years and all of a sudden low SWR  matches
> could not be found on one of my antennas.   It was odd because everything
> was fine yesterday.
> I found by checking "caps on the Ant side"  Ii could get a match in manual
> mode.
>  I wonder if that had been checked and all of a sudden it stopped being
> checked?
>
> Also I wonder if the"amp key interrupt "  was ever set properly.
> How should it be set with a KPA500 amplifier all cabled up.
> I did not see a simple explanation what these kat500 setting are for.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  I think I am going for a walk
> Thanks   Richard wa6kyr
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