Re: [Elecraft] [K3] K3 ATU tunning discrepancy
It's always confusing when a piece of equipment makes changes trying to anticipate what we might want but usually don't. As one of the most sage, wise men of the list (Don W3FPR) often observes, "I hate 'magic buttons'". Welcome to our club... Ron AC7AC 4Z5TO wrote: Yes, that is what basically happened, These are the types of things that happen when you've been playing with tube based gear your whole life then you find yourself with one of these Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century devices. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] K3 ATU tunning discrepancy
Yes, that is what basically happened, These are the types of things that happen when you've been playing with tube based gear your whole life then you find yourself with one of these Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century devices. 4Z5TO wrote: > Grr... > > I completely disassembled the antenna, cleaned and re-aligned/re-tuned it > on > all bands. I'm getting 1.5 on 20M now and 1.2 to 2.8 on the rest. The K3 > ATU > will match down to 5.2 on 20M now. Unless I figure out why this is, I'll > have to go back to my manual tuner and SWR analyzer, not a huge deal but > it > would be nice to know why the K3 ATU won't give me at least the same SWR > I'm > getting on my analyzer. Are you sure that you don't have the wrong antenna selected on 20m in your K3? -- 73, Vic, K2VCO (ex-4X6GP) Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-ATU-tunning-discrepancy-tp3449460p3451316.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] K3 ATU tunning discrepancy
4Z5TO wrote: > Grr... > > I completely disassembled the antenna, cleaned and re-aligned/re-tuned it on > all bands. I'm getting 1.5 on 20M now and 1.2 to 2.8 on the rest. The K3 ATU > will match down to 5.2 on 20M now. Unless I figure out why this is, I'll > have to go back to my manual tuner and SWR analyzer, not a huge deal but it > would be nice to know why the K3 ATU won't give me at least the same SWR I'm > getting on my analyzer. Are you sure that you don't have the wrong antenna selected on 20m in your K2? -- 73, Vic, K2VCO (ex-4X6GP) Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] K3 ATU tunning discrepancy
Ok everybody. I am an official nominee for "Lid of the Year" award on this one. Let this post stand as a lesson to others... With this K3 ATU (as good as it is) you cannot get a 1:1 match to air. Apparently the best I'll ever get is 5.2 and that might be with the high humidity. I apparently had set the radio to ANT 2 instead of ANT 1. I did not discover this until I decided to re-read the section on the ATU operation and go step-by-step and see if I missed something. I also received a few emails detailing similar goofs, so I am not alone on this one. 73, Douglas 4Z5TO -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-ATU-tunning-discrepancy-tp3449460p3450910.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] K3 ATU tunning discrepancy
Grr... I completely disassembled the antenna, cleaned and re-aligned/re-tuned it on all bands. I'm getting 1.5 on 20M now and 1.2 to 2.8 on the rest. The K3 ATU will match down to 5.2 on 20M now. Unless I figure out why this is, I'll have to go back to my manual tuner and SWR analyzer, not a huge deal but it would be nice to know why the K3 ATU won't give me at least the same SWR I'm getting on my analyzer. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-ATU-tunning-discrepancy-tp3449460p3449851.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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
