Regardless of the 'rattle' of the kat500, once done on all bands needed, the result is you only get a 'click' on band change and qsy if a new bin memory is asserted.
Other than those instances the kat500 is quiet. Not sure what all the fuss is about...it is what it is.....:-) 73 On 25 May 2013 07:01, george fritkin <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not nearly quiet as my Palstar auto > > George,W6GF > > > ________________________________ > From: Fred Jensen <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 - how loud when tuning? > > > You can hear it, and it's louder than the KAT3 100W tuner in the K3, but > it's quieter than any other high-powered auto-tuner I've used. I have 3 > antennas, all multi-band [but not all the same bands]. I went through > all the segments on all bands, and tuned the appropriate antennas > [KAT500 "remembers" settings on a frequency/antenna basis]. > > For each band, one antenna is designated "preferred," and if another > will also work on that band, it is secondary. Antennas that don't work > on a particular band are disabled in the tuner. It's really slick and I > don't think I've run an auto-tune cycle in months. Just QSY and hit the > key. Where I have two antennas, I can switch instantly between them > just by tapping the ANT switch. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013 > - www.cqp.org > > On 5/24/2013 3:04 AM, Jon Hellan wrote: > > I've got the LDG AT-600Pro. It does what I need it to do, but it's > > awfully loud when it cannot recall a setting from memory. How much > > noise does the KAT500 make? > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- *Gary - VK1ZZ Skype: Gary.VK1ZZ Motorhome Portable The Shack* *Elecraft K3 P3 Panadapter KPA500FT KAT500FT** KX3-K * ______________________________________________________________ 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
