Currently I have five antennas connected to my K3S via a manual switch: LPDA, 20 through 10 Vertical, CW on 80, low end of 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10. Dipole, Phone on 75, phone on 40, 20, 15 Inverted-L on 160 Yagi on 6 Mostly the antennas are below 2:1, but they need some flattening on 160, 80 and 40 if I have to go beyond their sweet spots.
When I build the KAT500, what is the best use of the 3 ports available to maximize it's tuning algorithm? In other words, how can I maximize the likelihood that a band change or QSY will result in a rapid tune due to prior memorization, versus a somewhat longer full tune? My thoughts were perhaps to put the 6 and 160 antennas each on their own KAT500 port, then use the manual switch for the three that would cover HF. Fine, except there could be a situation where the KAT500 had memorized a tune for 7.100 that might be fine for the vertical but different for the dipole. The vertical is omni, so at times it would be a better choice than the dipole. Or, perhaps experienced users can tell me that the tuning works quick enough that even if I try to confuse it the KAT500 will be quick enough that it isn't an issue. 73 de Chuck, WS1L -- =================== Chuck Chandler [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]
