On Monday Claire used a Straight-Key to send: -------------Original Comment-------
> The blinking MODE light says it's ready to tune once you apply enough RF > power. Five watts won't do it. The KAT500 cannot tune with less than 10 > watts of RF applied (20 watts is required for the most accurate tuning). I upped the power to 20w to see if it could tune itself during a transmit sequence. It seems that it can, though I only got one chance to see it as the drizzle let off, Keeping such high power though on this mode is not only unnecessary but it also serves to Jam a lot of the other guys who are using this weak signal mode. Usually 1 to 5 watts is sufficient for the continents I have worked. Very occasionally on what seems to be a dead band here, I have used 50 to work the EU area. -- Best regards, Bob KD7YZ Win7-64bit + K3 ______________________________________________________________ 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
