KAT3 use in multi-transmitter environment

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I intend to take my K3 to field day this year and have a question about the tuner. How does it perform when the antenna is in close proximity to a couple of other antennas being fed by 100 watt transmitters? I ask because of past issues with another brand auto tuner that sensed the other transmitter’s RF and retuned continuously. The only recourse in that situation was to disable auto tuning and manually tune the matching device.

Bill AF4B
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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Bill,

There should be no problems of that nature.  The KAT3 does not sense RF
to tune.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 5/9/2013 8:48 AM, Bill Adams wrote:
> I intend to take my K3 to field day this year and have a question about the tuner. How does it perform when the antenna is in close proximity to a couple of other antennas being fed by 100 watt transmitters? I ask because of past issues with another brand auto tuner that sensed the other transmitter’s RF and retuned continuously. The only recourse in that situation was to disable auto tuning and manually tune the matching device.
>
>

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[Ian Kahn, KM4IK]

Bill,

My club (North Fulton Amateur Radio League in Roswell, GA) has had K3s with
the KAT100 at Field Day for the last several years.  We've never had issues
with other stations' transmissions triggering tuning on the K3.  In fact,
we've had really good success using the K3 in Field Day situations with
little to no issue whatsoever.  The only time we had interference issues,
our CW station's antenna was pointed right at the antenna used by the K3.
I don't think any amount of filtering (even on the K3) would solve that
issue.  :-)

73 and good luck!

-- Ian
Ian Kahn, KM4IK
Roswell, GA EM74ua
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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> There should be no problems of that nature.  The KAT3 does not sense RF to
> tune.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
>
> On 5/9/2013 8:48 AM, Bill Adams wrote:
>
>> I intend to take my K3 to field day this year and have a question about
>> the tuner. How does it perform when the antenna is in close proximity to a
>> couple of other antennas being fed by 100 watt transmitters? I ask because
>> of past issues with another brand auto tuner that sensed the other
>> transmitter’s RF and retuned continuously. The only recourse in that
>> situation was to disable auto tuning and manually tune the matching device.
>>
>>
>>
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