Mine is a new (but not my first) K3. It has the KPA3, KAT3, KRX3, KXV3A, and P3. I have 2 antennas connected to the KAT3. Ant1 is a beam. Ant2 is an 88' long dipole fed with ladder line to an Elecraft 4:1 balun then coax to then K3. The KAT3 normally tunes it close to 1:1 on 80/40/30/20m, the only bands I use it on.
A few days ago, I heard a DX station working a pileup on 30m. I pushed A>B, Split, then Sub. When I keyed the K3 to call the DX I got the HIGH SWR message. Now whenever I tap ATU TUNE, the SWR maxes out, the relays go crazy and it tunes to about 2:1 and power goes to the what I have it set for (100 watts for 100 watts). It only does this on 30m. It tunes near or on 1:1 on the other bands. My K2 with KAT100 tunes the same antenna to 1:1 on 30m. I've had this antenna up for several years and it has always worked well, its up about 35 ft. So this is unusual. It will tune ANT 1 to 1:1. Only ANT 2 is a problem. It has gone into this mode, HIGH SWR then only tune to 2:1 twice, 2 times. After the first time I tried all different things but nothing changed. Until, somehow I got iit back to a normal ANT TUNE. Then it tuned fine until I did SPLIT then SUB. Again I get the HIGH SWR and will not tune. Has anyone else seen this problem, or have any ideas? Thanks, Joe K3# 5858 K2#4155 K1#764 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
