Paul, This is very unusual. Please contact customer support so they can send you a replacement.
Meanwhile, have you tried tapping ATU TUNE a second time right after the first attempt? If you do this within five seconds, the ATU will try a wider range of LC values. Wayne N6KR On May 12, 2014, at 9:35 PM, paulb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks > > Owned a KX3 for a while but never used portable until recently. > Antenna is a 40m dipole, coax fed. Nothing exotic. > > For some reason the KX3 tuner has a problem getting a good match. > It settles on something like 1.8/1 which is not big deal except other > transcievers show near perfect match around 7.1megs. > > Latest firmware ver loaded. > > Now here is the odd part; above 7260 fast perfect match. > Move down 1khz to 7259 and the tuner won't match correctly. > > On a 50 ohm dummy load tuner is faultless. > > Some thing I noted is the VSWR reading on the KX3 seems out of line with > other equipment. > > Not sure what the story is ? > > > in the meantime the KX3 is back on the shelf, > my K2 built several years ago is doing splendid service > > cheers > > Paul b > zl1ajy > > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KX-3-4092-tp7589040.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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
