Hi I believe for some intermittent time the tuner did not move the caps to the antenna side. It is working now though. All these boxes we have are computer controlled. I Thanks all
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:27 PM Richard Donner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > Well I checked the antenna and it is just as before the problem. > Is the capacitor setting normally checked by default? > This setting was not chosen automatically. > > After I enabled the capacitor setting the tuner tuned immediately to a > low SWR on the low end of the band. > I noticed that now it is automatically chosen. > This has been a nice study time to figure how this tuner works. It seems > fine now. > Thanks for the help all seems well. > > On another note , my k3 has reached its 15 birthday year > Thanks all > Richard > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 1:48 PM Richard Donner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have some question about the operate tab in the kat500 utility. >> In the "others" what should be checked off? >> "caps on the Ant side" >> "amp key interrupt" >> "attenuator" >> Not sure what these things do. >> >> I had been using my kat500 for years and all of a sudden low SWR >> matches could not be found on one of my antennas. It was odd because >> everything was fine yesterday. >> I found by checking "caps on the Ant side" Ii could get a match in >> manual mode. >> I wonder if that had been checked and all of a sudden it stopped being >> checked? >> >> Also I wonder if the"amp key interrupt " was ever set properly. >> How should it be set with a KPA500 amplifier all cabled up. >> I did not see a simple explanation what these kat500 setting are for. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. I think I am going for a walk >> Thanks Richard wa6kyr >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ 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]
