2016-09-30 21:59 GMT+02:00 Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net>: > This is reminiscent of one of the five volumes in Douglas Adams' trilogy, > "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy."
I understand that either my english is very weird. Or that I can't explain things good. But that you and Davidthink that they must make a 42 joke on this is definitely weird. The question was: I can query the KX3 ATU for what it settled. I have an end fed antenna and so I have various variables: - used tap (1:4, 1:9, 1:16) - some random length wire - band And forget an "optimal wire", I might just have switched from 12m to 10m. Or back. Depends on what I find, propagation ... so assume that my wire is just some random wire, not necessary optimal for the band. And also, in the context of my question, this is entirely irrelavant. I was never asking about wire lengths, this is easy to read up. Okay, back to my scenario: I just switched the new band. I'm not going to let my portable glass fiber down because of that and change the wire length! Instead I do what a lazy OM does: I press the TUNE button and the internal magical antenna tuner does it's job. It's actually so magic, that it will do it's job on all taps. On the 1:4 tap, on the 1:9 tap. And on the 1:16 tap. Woah! But I can query the ATU for what inductance and capacitance it used to do the match. And so my simple question was: would a lower inductance have less losses inside the ATU? And please: if you don't know the answer of if you think that there is no answer, than just stay silent. 73, Holger ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
