Your feedline impedance changes when wet and the memory will change in the tuner. I would expect that is quite normal and a good thing!
73, Bill K9YEQ K2 #35; KX1 #35; K3 #1744; mini mods ATS-3B -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Windy Dankoff Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial Fellows, I'm not asking you to go off-topic with advice on my feedline. I'm asking only about the behavior of the ATU memory system after I've retuned a few band segments to wet condx, then condx return to dry. Thanks Windy On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote: > Dale, I suspect that in Windy's case moisture could be entering via > tiny holes drilled in the dielectric by windblown sand or dust. > Unfortunately I cannot offer any practical solution to prevent this > happening, because I do not use window line. > > 4 wire open wire feeder behaves like a lovesick octopus unless kept > under tension. A very useful type of low cost feeder for long low > loss horizontal runs at HF and VHF though. > > 73, > Geoff > GM4ESD ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
