My poor choice of words with intervals. I meant frequency intervals not time, that would be dumb. These could be further apart if you antenna is more broad banded as tuner settings would only need to change when SWR became unacceptable. This would mean with some antenna's and on higher bands probably no chatter at all.
73 John ZL1BYZ. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Shaw Sent: Monday, 24 December 2012 09:46 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 a good tuner or great tuner Very good thought, yes that would happen. A compromise could be some sort of matrix with this mode of operation where you train the tuner at set intervals and the tuner only re tunes when they are passed. This would reduce the chatter and of course the tuner would already be trained so the clicking would be minimal. I could live with that, better than all this hot switching, KPA500 errors and all the on the band QRM that this extra tuning while sending RF. Just a dream maybe but I know Elecraft is a progressive company always looking for ways to improve their product so thought I would pipe up. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith-K5ENS Sent: Monday, 24 December 2012 09:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 a good tuner or great tuner I have asked the same question about the KAT500 following the K3 as tuned to be ready for any keying of the K3. I was told the relays in the KAT500 would click as I was tuning. SO? As an option I think that would be fine to know the KAT500 was tuned at all time. Keith, XE1/K5ENS -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KAT500-and-OT-Is-a-tuner-using-VNA-feas ible-tp7567559p7567565.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 ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
