I am primarily a CW operator, but participated in the SSB Sweepstakes over this past weekend, running low power (100W) from my K3S, which runs through my KPA-500 and KAT-500 to a SteppIR 3-element beam with the 30/40 meter loop), a 40 meter wire dipole, and an 80 meter wire inverted V. During the contest, I repeatedly noticed that the KAT-500 was not re-tuning automatically to adjust to frequency changes based only on my SSB transmissions. But I found that if if I switched to CW for a couple of brief transmissions, the KAT-500 quickly re-tuned and reduced my SWR to near 1:1, so I could then switch back to SSB and complete the contact.
[I retune the SteppIR manually as I change frequency, but the beam is only 40 feet up, and interacts with lots of trees, power lines, and other problematic structures close to my tiny 100 by 100 foot property, so the antenna itself is not always perfectly matched.] Has anybody experienced this problem or solved it? 73 - Rich, K1DJ Sent from my iPad ______________________________________________________________ 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