There are a lot of engineering issues in a choice to do it with a unit
switchout. It's not clear that a 5 inch piece of coax has less loss than 5
inches of printed circuit board, so presuming extra loss with the tuner
going into "neutral" is not warranted. Constant routing through the ATU
saves t
Of course the KAT500 is on order! I placed my order over the phone the
first day it became available, hihi!
I just think the internal K3 ATU should not be tuned into the theoretical
50 ohm input of the KPA500. Aren't there internal losses through the ATU
components that don't need to happen
It's not bypassed. The caps and inductors are "put in neutral", but unit
still in line. 73, Guy.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:49 PM, wrote:
> Aren't there internal losses through the ATU
> components that don't need to happen if the tuner is bypassed?
>
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*Easy...K3=500W transceiver.it is online all the time...rarely use the
KAT3:-)
With arrival of the KAT-500 eventually, I will not use the KAT3 very often
often barefoot either...YMMV
73
Gary
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On 15 June 2012 10:49, wrote:
> Of course the KAT500 is on order! I placed my order over the
Of course the KAT500 is on order! I placed my order over the phone the
first day it became available, hihi!
I just think the internal K3 ATU should not be tuned into the theoretical
50 ohm input of the KPA500. Aren't there internal losses through the ATU
components that don't need to happen
Yes, I was wondering how he was tuning with the amp on too...
Of course we just need to sell him a KAT500!
Keith WE6R
On 6/14/2012 11:10 AM, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
> I think you're missing the point, Keith ... or maybe I am. If you tune
> the KAT3 to match the amp, then it will not match th
I think you're missing the point, Keith ... or maybe I am. If you tune
the KAT3 to match the amp, then it will not match the antenna when the
amp is out of line. Of course this somewhat begs the question; how is
the antenna being matched when the amp is active? Maybe it's close to
2:1, which is sti
If you have the optional Aux cable, set the K3 power set to "Per Band",
then you can have different power levels depending on the OPerat or
Stndby mode of the KPA500. You will just have to go thru once and set
the levels to get 500 out (and whatever you want for Stndby).
The KAT3 is never really
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Don Putnick wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, any particular reason you want to bypass the K3 ATU?
Presumably because any stored match settings would be impertinent when
feeding the amp, vs. feeding the antenna(e) directly.
The real question is; why would you ever
Just out of curiosity, any particular reason you want to bypass the K3 ATU?
Don NA6Z
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Just finished building my KPA500 kit. What a joy to put together!
Now I've been searching the archives to see if there is any way to put
automatically put the K3's ATU in BYPASS when using the KPA500 in OPERATE mode?
It would be nice to have the K3's ATU status follow the PER BAND power
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