Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 - ...and a long wire inverted "L"

2011-12-17 Thread Rick Dettinger
I moved my inverted "L", a 176 foot long, 55 foot high wire in the trees, from my shack to a post with an SGC 230 tuner about 100 feet away from the shack. The noise level on receive went down about 3 S units. I live in a quiet, rural location, and, as a side benefit, the antenna is no lo

Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 - ...and a long wire inverted "L"

2011-12-17 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Oscar, you have the ideal situation now, with the remote tuner. And it's why a remote version of the KAT500 will be essential to serve the needs of many Hams like yourself. There is nothing you can do at the antenna feed point that will allow you to put the tuner in the shack and use a length of c

[Elecraft] KAT500 - ...and a long wire inverted "L"

2011-12-17 Thread Oscar Staudt
Although I'm not very good with antenna theory, I've enjoyed reading the discussions of where what type balun should go, or not go, etc. in the KAT500 discussions. I still don't know how I would go about connecting my current antenna to a KPA500, so I thought perhaps some of you would have some i