Craig D. Smith wrote:
In my normal contest setup here I use two antennas on the same band. One is
resonant so I don't need the ATU. The other is a multi-band doublet that I
use the KAT3 to tune. The beauty of this is that I can quickly switch from
one to the other with the K3 front panel ANT switch to select the one with
the stronger signal. The problem is that the state of the ATU (bypass or
engaged) has to be reset each time I switch antennas.
The ATU settings are per-antenna (and of course per-band). Just tune the
ATU for each antenna and you will be fine.
Note that even when the ATU is set to BYPASS there are still some tuner
components in the circuit, to compensate for stray reactance of the
board traces, etc. BYPASS really means "matched for a 50 ohm resistive
load".
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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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