Cookie and all, That is *not* true for the KAT3 (it was for the KAT2 and KAT100). Look on page 22 of the new owners manual. The K3 saves up to 30 ATU setting for both antennas on every band.
However, if you have not yet done so, you will have to do a TUNE at several frequencies throughout the band so the settings are recorded. If you change the antenna that is connected to either ANT1 or ANT2, you have to do that all over again - but once tuned, the settings for that band portion will be retained. Let's see -- 30 settings on a wide band like 80 meters (500 kHz wide), that means you can have a different setting for every 16.67 kHz segment of 80 meters. That should handle even the most narrowband antennas. Similarly 10 meters is 1.7 MHz wide, so the KAT3 can remember a unique setting every 56.67 kHz, and on 6 meters (4 MHz wide), every 133.33 kHz. Not too bad. The band segment boundaries may not be on exactly the intervals that I have stated - I simply divided the width of the band by 30 to get a general idea of the spacing, but in any case it should be quite adequate. 73, Don W3FPR WILLIS COOKE wrote: > You don't have to if you go back to the same frequency, but if you were on > the cw band and go back to the phone band you might, depending on if the load > changes. It does not seem to remember the settings for frequencies within > the band, but it is just the push of one button and two or three seconds to > tune again. > Willis 'Cookie' Cooke > K5EWJ > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
