Hi all, The contest isn't quite over, but the onset of full darkness in CNY has pretty well closed the band for the day.
I started the contest Friday night with just a G5RV connected to the tuner. I added two more antennas, resonant dipoles for 10 and 15m Saturday morning. Once the tuner learned my frequencies I could make an instant change between the G5RV which required lots of intervention for its raw 12:1 SWR and the dipole which had less than 1.5:1 across the phone band. The tuner decided to add 100nH inductance only and it dropped the SWR to 1:0 across most of the phone band. I had a blast with it and discovered much to my surprise that the G5RV almost always equaled or exceeded the performance of the dipole. Both are at similar heights. The ability to do an instant switch between the two including switching in the tuning elements required for each is invaluable. The setup here is: KAT500 located close to the antenna feedlines coming down in the yard. The only communication with the KAT500 is the serial link via Ethernet serial server by B&B. No attempt to hook up the aux cable over that distance (100+ feet). With this setup I can control the box from anywhere I can connect to my LAN. AB2TC -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Remotely-located-KAT500-in-the-ARRL-10m-contest-tp7566974.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
