Yes. I oftentimes leave tuners in line for expediency when switching out amplifiers to go direct to antenna. 73, Bill K9YEQ
From: kevino z [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:15 AM To: Bill Johnson <[email protected]> Cc: Kenneth Christiansen <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Tuning procedure for KX3, KXPA100 and KAT500? Shouldn't the only tuner being used in this configuration be the KAT500? You should have any tuner in the KX3 and KXPA100 in BYPASS mode, not MANUAL. -Kevin (KK4YEL) ----- The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. On Jan 25, 2017, at 21:29, Bill Johnson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have this setup. It works well. I would suggest a menu change to 5 watt tuning with the KX3. Do not tune everything at once. Big error. Do you have a tuner in the KXPA100? If so set on "Man" then tune the KX3 into the KAT500. This will stop what you are seeing. Too many tuners going at once will cause what you are seeing. If that doesn't work, turn off the KX3 tuner and use only the Kat500. Once tuned the rest should work. 73, Bill K9YEQ -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Christiansen Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 5:32 PM To: Kenneth Christiansen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Tuning procedure for KX3, KXPA100 and KAT500? Thank you to the three people that responded to this so far but each of you accused me of having my friend run three tuners in a row. The KX3 turns it's tuner off when it senses the KXPA100 is connected and turned on. There is a setting in the MENU to turn off the tuner in the KXPA100 which we did and have to keep watching as the equipment keeps wanting to turn it back on. The problem we are having is tuning the KAT500. Hi SWRs are sent back to the KXPA100 and it trips out. I was hoping there is someone out there that is making this work. I have a K3S myself and a KAT500 and they work perfectly together at 25 watts for tuning than the full 500 watts after it is tuned. My friend does not have a K3S so we need to make the KX3 and KXPA100 work. Thank you KEN. W0CZ [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent from my iPad On Jan 25, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Kenneth Christiansen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi to the group I have a friend with the following equipment. KX3 with built in tuner. KXPA100 with built in tuner. KPA500 KAT500 50 ft of LMR400 coax R9 vertical. The KPA500 is not in the circuit at this time. We try to tune the KPA500 using the station set for 20 watts and a hand key. The KXPA100 often kicks out. The SWR of the KAT500 changes quite a bit over a tuning cycle and I think that is what is causing the trouble. Is anyone else using this combination of equipment and can give us some guide lines on setting up each piece of equipment and a procedure to tune up the KAT500 without hurting the KXPA100? Thanks to anyone that can help as this has turned into an expensive problem that has destroyed three pieces of equipment. Ken. W0CZ [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent from my iPad ______________________________________________________________ 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]
