Re: [Elecraft] KXPA-100 tuner question.

2020-11-21 Thread Bob N3MNT
I have tried the second quick tap. It worked with the old ant/coax but offers no improvement now. Breaking out the VNA tomorrow. Thank you to all who helped. -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ __ Elecraft mailing

Re: [Elecraft] KXPA-100 tuner question.

2020-11-21 Thread George Danner
Bob, According to my KXPA100 manual (A2-2013) - "... tap *tune* again within 5 seconds. The ATU will do a second tune using smaller steps in inductance and capacitance values." All my Electraft ATUs have a similar feature. Downside - It does take much longer to achieve the match. 73 George

Re: [Elecraft] KXPA-100 tuner question.

2020-11-21 Thread Dick Dievendorff
Bob: the KXPA100 Utility operate page should have check boxes for manual selection of L and C. There is also an edit box with up and down arrows to change L and C one step at a time. See if you can wiggle those to a place that better suits you. There is a save button once you’ve reached

[Elecraft] KXPA-100 tuner question.

2020-11-20 Thread Bob N3MNT
I recently replaced/ upgraded the coax and balun on my Off center dipole and no longer have to ability to get a 1:1 match using the tuner. I know it is OCD (no pun intended) but I have always been able to get 1:1 with the tuner. Details: Operating on low end of 80M 3.563M Measuring the