Hi Larry, I have a description of the tuning procedures that the KAT500 goes through at http://www.ke7x.com/home/kat500-and-kxpa100-tuners that you might find useful. Cheers and 73, Fred KE7X
Author of: "The Elecraft K3: Design, Configuration and Operation 2nd ed" "The Elecraft KX3 - Going for the summit" "The Elecraft KPA500 and KAT500 - the K-Line Dream Station" Printed, coil bound copies of these are all available at www.elecraft.com The following are available at KE7X.com: KPA500 and KAT500 Quick Set Up Guide http://www.ke7x.com/home/k-line-introduction-and-set-up-guide KAT500 and KXPA500 Tuner Operation http://www.ke7x.com/home/kat500-and-kxpa100-tuners "The Elecraft KXPA100, PX3 and 2M/4M Transverters - Assembling the KX3-Line Station" available at www.lulu.com. -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Larry Snyder Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 5:51 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] KAT500 Good Morning I have a KAT500 with a vertical on ANT 1 and a Hex on ANT 3. I go to 20 meters with Auto flashing an put the radio in AM and the KAT500 tunes and finds a good SWR - all is fine. Then I play around with other frequencies and then come back and for some reason the KAT500 appears to not remember the tuning parameters and then retunes again for the same frequency on the same antenna. Why is this?? This happens frequently (i.e.: not remembering the settings and going into retune). Also, the SWR meter on the K3 is always blank (i.e.: no bars) while on the K3 and KPA500 I see the SWR at 1.5?? 73s from Colombia Larry HK2LS -- Larry Snyder, RN.ORG "Thousands of Nurses Depend on www.RN.org <http://www.RN.org> for their Nursing CEUs Daily!" ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to fc...@ece.montana.edu ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
