I have the full Kline and I've always thought something was not quite right 
with my KAT500, but i had an antenna that was below 2:1 in swr and it didn't 
run.
However today I connected my new beam and it is below 2:1 from 14.2 to 14.3 so 
it was time for the tuner.
I put the kpa in standby, set the power on the k3 to 40 watts (tried 30 and 60 
no difference) and hit the tune button starting at 14.0 and went up by 20 kHz 
over the whole range. Everything seemed fine if I transmitted with the kpa at 
the last tune. However if I then changed the frequency going from let's say 
14.2 to 14.070, when I went to transmit at 14.070 all the swr lights went on 
and I got a fault in the kpa, fault 9 I.e. high reflected power. If I then 
initiated a tune, there was no tuning occurring and the k3 would give 5.7 to 1 
and just sit there. The kat would not tune at all. If I did it again, all of a 
sudden it would show 1.2 to one and transmit would then be okay. If I then went 
back to 14.2 again and try to transmit again I would get the high reflected 
power and if I tuned it would say something like 4.1:1 but then be normalthe 
second time I hit the tune.
So I just went up and down retuning and just in tune mode I would see the same 
thing if I changed the frequencies by a large amount.
So what gives? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks, Tom


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