Ivan, Note the "f" and the "r" in the display. That tells that the display is showing both forward power and reflected power - and not SWR. The other 2 displays are the computed SWR.
All is well, go try your random wire (but stay warm). 73, Don W3FPR Ivin Flint wrote: > With a little help from Don W. I seem to have my KAT2 up and going pretty > good and it sure is nice to have a built-in auto tuner again. My last QRP > rig was a Icom 703 which also has a nice auto tuner. > > Here is my question. There are three ways to see SWR from what I understand. > 1) holding the tune button putting the tuner into tune mode and seeing where > the SWR ratio ends. > 2) holding RF/ALC& Tune putting it into Pout mode and seeing > forward/reflected power. > 3) going into the menu X.X-1 mode. > > On my off center fed dipole I read on 20M the following in the above > mentioned order. > 1.8 - 1 > 5.4 f - .8r > 1.8 - 1 > > So I guess the x.x-1 is directly re-displaying what was displayed at the end > of a tune function, but I don't understand why I get two different readings > between the Pout reflected .8 and the other two 1.8. Is it just my own > mis-understanding of what is being shown? .8 and 1.8 is exactly 1 off, but > I'm obsessed right now with wanting to be sure the tuner is working as it > should and I can trust that it is doing it's job. > > As soon as I am confident things are working right I want to go out in the > FREEZING outdoors and try my random wire. I can't wait to get out into the > woods again and enjoy the tuner. > > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
