Hi Eric I think you are asking a lot for a tuner to run at any power into a non-resonant antenna and break a pile up. :)
You would actually have better success with a 12M dipole then trying to get a non-resonant beam to direct your signal. If I was in your shoes, I would quickly toss up a 12M dipole with some string and bubble gum as you would have a much higher radiated signal. Mike va3mw On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 4:08 PM eric norris via Elecraft < [email protected]> wrote: > My Force 12 C3 antenna is not resonant on 12m. Using the K3 barefoot, the > internal atu tunes the antenna fine. Bypassing the K3 atu, but still > running barefoot into the KPA1500 atu, the KPA atu loses it's mind and goes > in and out of TUNE mode uncommanded. Even though the KPA has found a > match, trying to transmit through it at the 100w level is impossible > because of the constant retuning. > I have put my small collection of mix-31 ferrites on the antenna output, > input, and KPA control line at the KPA, each at a time, with no success. > Any ideas? I would like to be able to run the KPA at least a few hundred > watts to have the proverbial snowball's chance to break the VP6R pileup on > 12m CW. > Any useful comments appreciated. > 73 Eric WD6DBM > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
