Phillip Shepard wrote: > I put it in ALT mode, and it spent a > long time searching before it got down to between 3:1 and 4:1, depending > on > the 20m frequency. I added about 2" of wire to the antenna, and the tuer > got down to about 2:1 to 2.5:1. I added another foot of wire (now 36'), > and > it got down to about 1.5:1. Five or six feet added yielded a perfect > match > (1:1). So I now have a 39' wire for 20m use. > > Is this normal? Should the KAT2 be able to more easily match the 33' > halfwave antenna? Thank you. >
Probably normal. End-fed half-wave antennas are 4-5000 ohms impedance, so you're asking the tuner to match an 80-100:1 SWR which is beyond the range of most tuners. 73, Bill -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-S-meter-oddities-tp6676870p6718255.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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
