For Field Day this year I had my K2 hooked up to a 130' dipole fed by ladder line. We ran that to a 4:1 balun and a few feet of coax to the KAT100. It tuned it up nicely on all bands. We had no trouble working anyone we called.
Craig NZ0R -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curt Milton Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:50 AM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] KAT100 with Ladder Line I admit I enjoyed using a KAT100 at FD, but I wonder how much value it would be at my station. For feeding my wire antenna with balanced line, I suspect I need an external balun, that has to go someplace, and better to be attached to one of the tuner inputs. Currently I use a manual MFJ tuner (with its internal 4:1 balun) to operate my wire antenna on 30, 40, 80 and 160m. I can imagine the autotuner being useful here, but I can't envision the balun to use and how to attach it to the KAT100. My other antennas are 2 multiband verticals (80/40 and 20/17/15/12/10), and these are nicely matched where I operate - so not much utility for the KAT100 here. So will a KAT100 make my QSY more seamless, and what balun to use and how to integrate it ? 73, curt ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
