Hi Rich I think you have your answer and the B rig needs some calibration.
Mike va3mw On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Richard Thorne <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a strange swr issue I'm trying to resolve. > > I have two K3's for an SO2R setup, lets call them K3-A and K3-B. On 40 > meters the swr that the K3 displays on K3-A indicates what is to be > expected 1.5:1 at 7.001 and 2.0:1 at 7.105, however on K3-B the K3 > displays 1.0:1 at 7.001 and 2.7:1 at 7.105. > > I'm using the same exact coax to connect to both rigs and I'm going > directly to ant port 1 on both rigs. Neither rig has the ATU in line (K3-B > doesn't even have an internal ATU). The antenna is a 2 element 40m yagi. > > I've used an external Daiwa swr/power meter which agrees with rig K3-A's > swr when connected to either radio. > > So it appears that the displayed swr on rig K3-B is giving an incorrect > reading. > > Any ideas? Is it time to calibrate the wattmeter? > > Thanks > > Rich - N5ZC > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
