[Kenwood] TS-450S questions.

[David Tilley]

It won't tune on 160 with the internal tuner. You'll need an external tuner
for that.


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On Feb 1, 2017 12:25, "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:

> A couple of friends have TS-450S rigs which they like a lot.
>
> I was over to one of those yesterday, and we tried to get his TS-450S to
> auto-tune his 160
> meter antenna on 160 meters, but the auto-tuning function does not work on
> 160, although it
> works on all other bands.
>
> We then tried to use the Kenwood procedure in the manual to "manually"
> load the antenna,
> but THAT function would not work either.
>
> Does anyone know whether 1) the TS-450S's automatic antenna coupler will
> not work on
> 160 meters, or 2) is there a problem with this particular TS-450S, or 3)
> is there a way to get
> it to work?
>
> We find nothing in the manual that suggests that 160 meters is locked out
> of the tuning
> procedure, nor did I find anything which mentions this on the web either.
>
> Advice? Suggestions?
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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