Since I exclusively use balanced ladder line fed antennas, I have been using an external Palstar balanced tuner rather than my K3 internal KAT3 tuner. Recently, I've decided to give the internal tuner another try.
I find that on some bands, even though the KAT3 brings the SWR match below 2:1, the transmitter output power is reduced from 100 watts to the 60-70 watt range. I don't see this issue with the external tuner, but I can almost always find a 1:1 match. Is this because my muti-band non-resonant doublet is providing impedances that are too difficult for the KAT3 to match? Or is something more sinister afoot? Steve N9SZ On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:11 PM, zabarnick . <[email protected]> wrote: > My K3 SWR meter no longer reads 1:1 into a 50 ohm dummy load or > matched load. The lowest it will read is 1.2:1. Is there a calibration > or zeroing I should redo? > > Steve N9SZ ______________________________________________________________ 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]
