Ron, maybe you saw the reply from Gary, VK1ZZ? His fix worked, I don't
know why however. I have the KAT3 in bypass on all bands right now
since getting the KAT500. I thought that meant the K3 was connected
straight thru to the KPA500 input circuit so it should see a fairly low
SWR. It usually runs around 1.1 or so.
So Gary's advice was, 1) Put the KAT3 into AUTO; 2) Tap ATU TUNE on the
K3; 3) Hold ATU TUNE until the KAT3 goes into BYPASS.
When I did this, I think something also happened in the KAT500, although
I'm not totally sure where the noise came from nor do I understand why
it should have done anything. The SWR on the K3 was now 1:1, but the
SWR on the KPA500 was now high. Retuning the KAT500 made it 1:1.
As I said, I can't explain this with the model I have in my head, time
for a new model I guess.
And, thanks again to Alan for the monochrome waterfall option on the P3.
I can see signals I can't really hear initially, but when I get on
them, I can then use the APF much more effectively and I've picked up
several mults today. 10m is way above El Stinko today, but still fairly
puny.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013
- www.cqp.org
On 12/8/2012 4:01 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Fred, my K3 reports 1.7:1 into the KPA500 on 10 meters. 6 meters and 12
meters are both 1.4:1. All other bands are 1.1:1 or better.
That's with the K3's internal tuner in bypass of course.
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