As I read Fred's note, it seems like maybe he is assuming that it can keep multiple settings, as he said he "has more than one antenna for most bands." Does the KAT500 keep a separate set of memories for each ANTx port, or is there just ONE for each band, irregardless of what ANTx port the antenna is hooked to? My understanding was that there is just ONE set of memories. Yes?
Jim / W6JHB On Saturday, Mar 1, 2014, at Saturday, 10:54 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote: > If your antenna tuner settings at nearby frequencies are similar, they don't > all need to be present. The ATU searches left and right of the tune freq for > the first non-empty memory. But if there is a stale entry from a prior > antenna, it looks just as good for a Memory recall tune. > > The segment widths are > 10 kHz on 160 > 20 kHz on 80 thru 12 meters > 100 kHz on 10 > 200 kHz on 6 meters > > My 10 meter antenna, an InnovAntenna, is flat from 28000 thru 29000. I > trained at just at those two points. More doesn't hurt, it's just > unnecessary work if the antennas are flat. My 40 meter W6NL Moxon is a close > second. > > 73 de Dick, K6KR > >> On Mar 1, 2014, at 10:41, Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote: >> >> Hmmm ... I think you may have pointed out a technical difficulty in my mind. >> I thought the KAT500 divided the bands up into fixed segments and I >> "trained" mine at what I thought was the center of each segment ... every 10 >> KHz on 160, 20 KHz on 80, 50 KHz on 40/30, 100 KHz on 20/17/15/10, and I >> don't remember on 6. If I'm reading your explanation right, I should have >> done it based on the bandwidth of my antennas instead? That would be a lot >> faster, my method took an afternoon since I have more than one antenna for >> most bands. >> >> 73, >> >> Fred K6DGW >> - Northern California Contest Club >> - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014 >> - www.cqp.org >> >>> On 3/1/2014 10:07 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote: >>> >>> 2) I don't use Mode AUTO mode. To "train" the tuner (initial setting), I put >>> the tuner in mode MAN, then perform step 1) above in several places on each >>> band. On bands where my antennas are "sharp" (160 and 80), I do this on >>> every 10 kHz (for 160 meters) and every 20 kHz (80 meters). On 40 I tune in >>> about five spots, on 20 meters I tune at the bottom, middle, and top of the >>> CW and phone segments. The tuner finds the nearest memory to your current >>> frequency. If I didn't tune in enough spaces, I sometimes perform step 1) >>> later when I find a spot that I should have trained in the initial step. >>> It's important to clear memories on a band where you make significant >>> antenna changes, because all the old settings can be used if you don't >>> retune in every memory segment. >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
