>Will the internal ATU work for me visiting other bands or would I be better off installing a tuner between the rig and the antenna?
Frank, go ahead and try the internal K3 tuner on different bands. Your 40M dipole will work fine on 15M. I have had okay results on 30M. I am sure losses are high but it works for the casual contacts I have made. It will probably tune but not work well at all on 80M; at least 80M didn't work at all for me. I have made contacts on all bands from 60M to 6M using either a 40M inverted V or a 20M dipole, don't remember which one for each band. As Phil AD5X says coax losses will be high everywhere but 40M and 15M. Someday I will get a real antenna but for the odd contact on another band I seem to do okay with the internal K3 autotuner. I would love to have a remote balanced tuner. I am building one but that is another story. Mike Scott - AE6WA Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA) K3-100 #508/ KX1 #1311 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
