[Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

The K3 KAT3 antenna tuner is a puzzle to me. The user manual says that there are up to 30 ATU settings stored for each antenna on each band by the antenna tuner. There is no further discussion as to when a setting is saved or how a setting is chosen from those saved. Is the frequency tracked as th

[Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

Windy, The latest QST has an article on window feed line that discusses this very topic Julius Fazekas N2WN Tennessee Contest Group http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en Tennessee QSO Party http://www.tnqp.org/ Elecraft K2/100 #4455 Elecraft K3/100 #366 El

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

Hi Don, The manual is a bit sparse in this area -- I'll improve it next time. > The user manual says that there are up to 30 ATU settings stored for > each antenna on each band by the antenna tuner. Yes. 10 kHz per segment on 160 m, 20 kHz per segment on 80-12 m, 100 kHz on 10 m, and 200 kHz

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

A really great feature of K3EZ is that it auto tunes the rig at all of the preset bins across all bands that you wish. This is something that would be slick if it were built into the calibration section of the elecraft K3 app but otherwise the K3EZ app does a good job of this. ~Brett On Wed, 200

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

Here's another question: I have a dipole with 200 feet of window-line feed. It works great with the ATU. When it's wet, I have to re-tune, then it's fine again. I've tuned it at lots of spots in some favorite bands during dry weather (most of the time in New Mexico). But on a rainy day, I

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

Windy, What sort of arrangement are you using to connect the feeder to the antenna? Do you get a lot of wind-blown dust / sand during the dry weather, some of which might be staying on the feeder until most is washed off by rain. 73, Geoff GM4ESD Windy KM5Q wrote on Thursday, October 22, 2009

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

. Still beats coax for losses. --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy > From: gm4...@btinternet.com > To: k...@mac.com > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:53:53 +0100 > CC: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial > > Windy, > > What s

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Dale, I suspect that in Windy's case moisture could be entering via tiny holes drilled in the dielectric by windblown sand or dust. Unfortunately I cannot offer any practical solution to prevent this happening, because I do not use window line. 4 wire open wire feeder behaves like a lovesick oc

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Fellows, I'm not asking you to go off-topic with advice on my feedline. I'm asking only about the behavior of the ATU memory system after I've retuned a few band segments to wet condx, then condx return to dry. Thanks Windy On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote: > D

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I've heard that some folks rub silicone furniture polish on the ladder line to keep moisture from settling, then dust, mud, etc doesn't stick. David G3UNA Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote: > Dale, I suspect that in Windy's case moisture could be entering via tiny > holes drilled in the d

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...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Windy Dankoff Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:02 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial Fellows, I'm not asking you to go off-topic with advice on my feedline. I'm asking only about the behavior of the ATU mem

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Yes, and it is a quite poorly done article with various procedural errors and measurement inconsistencies. I recommend you ignore it. See the message thread initiated by W8JI in the Elmers forum on eHam for more discussion about it. 73, Dave AB7E Julius Fazekas wrote: > Windy, > > The l

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net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial > > I've heard that some folks rub silicone furniture polish on the ladder line > to keep moisture from settling, then dust, mud, etc doesn't stick. > > David > G3UNA > > Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wro

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

Wes, N7WS has a paper on window line which is much more informative: . Bob, N7XY On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Julius Fazekas wrote: > Windy, > > The latest QST has an article on window feed line that discusses > this very topic > Julius

Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial

See Pg 66. 73, Bill K9YEQ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Julius Fazekas Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:16 PM To: k...@mac.com Cc: Elecraft Discussion List Subject: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner

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change > in the > tuner. I would expect that is quite normal and a good thing! > > > 73, > > Bill > K9YEQ > K2 #35; KX1 #35; K3 #1744; mini mods > ATS-3B > > -Original Message- > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial > > Fellows,

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an.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of KM5Q Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:02 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial Sure Bill. When feedline is wet, I alter some band segments by retuning as needed, as I operate. Then w