With a little help from Don W. I seem to have my KAT2 up and going pretty good
and it sure is nice to have a built-in auto tuner again. My last QRP rig was a
Icom 703 which also has a nice auto tuner.
Here is my question. There are three ways to see SWR from what I understand.
1) holding the tune button putting the tuner into tune mode and seeing where
the SWR ratio ends.
2) holding RF/ALC& Tune putting it into Pout mode and seeing forward/reflected
power.
3) going into the menu X.X-1 mode.
On my off center fed dipole I read on 20M the following in the above mentioned
order.
1.8 - 1
5.4 f - .8r
1.8 - 1
So I guess the x.x-1 is directly re-displaying what was displayed at the end of
a tune function, but I don't understand why I get two different readings
between the Pout reflected .8 and the other two 1.8. Is it just my own
mis-understanding of what is being shown? .8 and 1.8 is exactly 1 off, but I'm
obsessed right now with wanting to be sure the tuner is working as it should
and I can trust that it is doing it's job.
As soon as I am confident things are working right I want to go out in the
FREEZING outdoors and try my random wire. I can't wait to get out into the
woods again and enjoy the tuner.
Thanks as always.
Ivin W9ILF
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