Windy,
What sort of arrangement are you using to connect the feeder to the antenna?
Do you get a lot of wind-blown dust / sand during the dry weather, some of
which might be staying on the feeder until most is washed off by rain.
73,
Geoff
GM4ESD
Windy KM5Q wrote on Thursday, October 22,
for losses.
--... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:53:53 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial
Windy,
What sort of arrangement are you using to connect the feeder
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
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:
I've heard that some folks rub silicone furniture polish on the ladder line to
keep moisture from settling, then dust, mud, etc doesn't stick.
David
G3UNA
Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy gm4...@btinternet.com wrote:
Dale, I suspect that in Windy's case moisture could be entering via tiny
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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
Windy,
The latest QST has an article on window feed line that discusses this very topic
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en
Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
Yes, and it is a quite poorly done article with various procedural
errors and measurement inconsistencies. I recommend you ignore it. See
the message thread initiated by W8JI in the Elmers forum on eHam for
more discussion about it.
73,
Dave AB7E
Julius Fazekas wrote:
Windy,
The
] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial
I've heard that some folks rub silicone furniture polish on the ladder line
to keep moisture from settling, then dust, mud, etc doesn't stick.
David
G3UNA
Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy gm4...@btinternet.com wrote:
Dale, I suspect that in Windy's case
Wes, N7WS has a paper on window line which is much more informative:
http://users.triconet.org/wesandlinda/ladder_line.pdf.
Bob, N7XY
On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Julius Fazekas wrote:
Windy,
The latest QST has an article on window feed line that discusses
this very topic
Julius
See Pg 66.
73,
Bill
K9YEQ
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Subject: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner
that is quite normal and a good thing!
73,
Bill
K9YEQ
K2 #35; KX1 #35; K3 #1744; mini mods
ATS-3B
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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
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of KM5Q
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:02 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KAT3 Antenna Tuner Tutorial
Sure Bill. When feedline is wet, I alter some band segments by
retuning as needed, as I operate. Then when dry, I
The K3 KAT3 antenna tuner is a puzzle to me. The user manual says that there
are up to 30 ATU settings stored for each antenna on each band by the
antenna tuner. There is no further discussion as to when a setting is saved
or how a setting is chosen from those saved. Is the frequency tracked as
Hi Don,
The manual is a bit sparse in this area -- I'll improve it next time.
The user manual says that there are up to 30 ATU settings stored for
each antenna on each band by the antenna tuner.
Yes. 10 kHz per segment on 160 m, 20 kHz per segment on 80-12 m, 100
kHz on 10 m, and 200 kHz
A really great feature of K3EZ is that it auto tunes the rig at all of
the preset bins across all bands that you wish. This is something that
would be slick if it were built into the calibration section of the
elecraft K3 app but otherwise the K3EZ app does a good job of this.
~Brett
On Wed,
Here's another question: I have a dipole with 200 feet of window-line
feed. It works great with the ATU. When it's wet, I have to re-tune,
then it's fine again.
I've tuned it at lots of spots in some favorite bands during dry
weather (most of the time in New Mexico). But on a rainy day, I
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