I need some guidance, please. My K3 built in antenna tuner seems to do a very nice job on the HF bands, and it now permits me to use a single 160m inverted V antenna to get coverage on all the HF bands. I do not currently have an amplifier anymore for the HF bands, since I rarely operate on them. The antenna tuner seems to work FB direct from the K3 to the antenna - but only when I am in the receive mode.
HOWEVER, when I operate on 6m, I use an amplifier with external preamp, coax relays, sequencer, etc. The K3 is put into XMIT by the sequencer through the front panel PTT line, which is triggered either by a footswitch or the computer. Which means, the amplifier is only connected to the antenna when I am in XMIT mode. Of course, you say! BUT, to get the K3 antenna tuner to work into the amplifier, I need to be in XMIT mode, and the K3's antenna tuner does not seem to work when I am in XMIT mode! Is there some special setting or something somewhere that I need to change to enable the antenna tuner to work when the K3 and the rest of the station is switched into XMIT mode? I can't imagine I am the only person running an amplifier with my K3, so SOMEBODY must have an idea how to conveniently do this ;-) Right now, the only solution I have found is to put the station into XMIT, but disconnect the PTT line going to the K3, so it is still in RECV. Then with everything EXCEPT the K3 in XMIT mode, I can press the ATU TUNE button and have it match up to the input of the amplifier. Then I can reconnect the PTT line to the K3 for normal operation. This can't be the best way to do this :-( Thanks for your help! VY 73, Lance -- Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8, E51SIX) P.O. Box 73 Frenchtown, MT 59834 USA QTH: DN27UB TEL: (406) 626-5728 URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj 2m DXCC #11/6m DXCC #815 Interested in 6m EME? Ask me about subscribing to the MAGIC BAND EME email reflector! ______________________________________________________________ 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
