Sounds like a nice project Andy. I just cleared tuner memories on my 1500 and tuned every 10 kHz starting at 3.505. My issue is rain or ice affects antenna tuning.
A wish list item for my 1500 would be ability to export/import antenna tuner settings on demand after they are set up. That way if you need to touch up a few bins you could reload the exported tuner settings once you are back in dry weather. Dave wo2x Sent from my waxed string and tin cans. > On Dec 14, 2019, at 6:28 PM, Andy Durbin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Back on Dec 7th I posted "Popular wisdom is that KAT500 should be trained > for all frequencies in a band and then operated in manual mode. This is what > I do at my station but I find the training process to be a bit tedious and > I'm considering automating the training process." > > I now have a test version working. It currently has 2 functions: > > > 1. Sweep and Autotune - Set TX frequency and KAT frequency to center of > first bin of current band. When frequencies are verified then initiate > autotune and TX with autotune power. When tune complete advance to next bin > center frequency and repeat. > 2. Sweep and check SWR - Set TX frequency and KAT frequency to center of > first bin of current band. When frequencies are verified then TX with 5 W > for 2 seconds to allow a check of LP-100A indicated SWR or complex load. > Then advance to next bin center frequency and repeat. > > The tuning solution for first autotune pass seems to be rather poor for some > bins but it improves with a second or third pass. (I understand the result > depends on the power setting but there seems to be more to it than that. Auto > fine tune is enabled. ) > > My last autotune sweep of the entire 160 m band took 1 minute 10 seconds. > The check sweep took 1 minute 20 seconds. Check sweep time should be > constant but the time for the autotune sweep will be quite variable. > > A future refinement of the check sweep may be to set an SWR threshold and log > all frequencies that don't indicate better than that value. These would then > be presented in sequence for manual adjustment. > > So, still a work in progress, but appears to have potential. And yes, there > will be an option to CW ident after tuning each bin although my preference is > to minimize time on frequency. > > Andy, k3wyc > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
