Phil & Debbie Salas wrote: > > The K3 internal tuner may or may not be able to tune 160-meters - I > suspect > it will have no problem on 80 meters. It depends on the length and loss > of > your feedline. The 43-foot vertical has HORRIBLE SWR on 160- and > 80-meters. > And so your line loss will be very high. >
I'd attach a 40' wire to the top of the vertical, run it back down next to the vertical for 40-10m and it should be invisible on those bands. For 80-160m, pull it out as far as possible (or rig an attachment rope to an adjacent tree) to add some top-loading on those bands. It's not instant band-switching but should work far better than base-loading. 73, Bill W4ZV -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Internal-Tuner-and-43-Vertical-tp6805633p6806399.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
