KXAT3 question

[Joshua Gould, K8WXA]

Good evening,

I have a question about using the antenna tuner in the KX3.

Is it necessary to hit the ATU TUNE button after moving the VFO by a few
hundred kilohertz or after a band change?  What happens if I don't? Will
the ATU kick in and do it's thing on it's own?

Kinda confused about this aspect of my new radio...

73,
Joshua Gould
K8WXA
EM89pn
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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Joshua,

If you have previously "trained" your antenna tuner to that particular
antenna on that new band segment, then there is no need to do an ATU
TUNE - the tuner will automatically pick the proper L/C components for
that band segment.  That is what is "automatic" about the Elecraft
tuners.  Tune it once on that band segment and it will automatically
select that tuning combination for the new frequency.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 2/10/2015 11:50 PM, Joshua Gould wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> I have a question about using the antenna tuner in the KX3.
>
> Is it necessary to hit the ATU TUNE button after moving the VFO by a few
> hundred kilohertz or after a band change?  What happens if I don't? Will
> the ATU kick in and do it's thing on it's own?
>
> Kinda confused about this aspect of my new radio...
>
> 73,
> Joshua Gould
> K8WXA
> EM89pn
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
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