Re: [Elecraft] [K2] auto tuner capabilities

2018-05-05 Thread Chip Stratton
While the Elecraft antenna tuners are excellent and wide range, don't be surprised if you find wire lengths of antenna and counterpoise that they will not get a match on for a given band. You may still find you have to fine tune the lengths for them to work on all of your favorite bands, even if yo

Re: [Elecraft] [K2] auto tuner capabilities

2018-05-03 Thread Vic Rosenthal
It’s great. It matches almost anything. In the field I just hook a wire to the end of a fishing pole and throw a counterpoise on the ground. Very quick and easy. I highly recommend it. Vic 4X6GP > On 4 May 2018, at 5:42, Robert G Strickland wrote: > > I've seen and read a great deal about fe

Re: [Elecraft] [K2] auto tuner capabilities

2018-05-03 Thread Wayne Burdick
Yes. Our ATU algorithm was in fact pioneered on the KAT2. It has eight inductors and eight capacitors, and was designed specifically to match a wide range of random wire antennas. The hardware and firmware were refined over multiple field events. Wayne N6KR http://www.elecraft.com > On M

[Elecraft] [K2] auto tuner capabilities

2018-05-03 Thread Robert G Strickland
I've seen and read a great deal about feeding random lengths of wire, usually end fed, in QRP operation. All sorts of tuners and counterpoises are proposed and discussed. Question: is the K2 auto tuner sufficient and effective in these types of situations? I'm thinking of building and installin