Ladies and Gents,
I have been somewhat inactive for the last 8 months due to health issues with my wife and myself. Never grow old! My wife broke her leg and I have osteoarthritis that hampers my tower climbing let alone getting around home and work. Myt wife and I are in our 50s and still think we are in our 20s. So, it has been a discouraging year on the medical front. But,
This weekend, I was doing a little hamming withe the K2/100 and the KAT100. What amazed me was the versatility of the KAT100. I screwed up this weekend by accidentally switching to Antenna 2. You can do that very easily and not know it. So, I got out the KAT100 book and started troubleshooting. After about 15 minutes (yea, I'm slow too), I discovered my mistake. It would work on all bands except 20 meters. Well, everytime I went from band to band it would switch in Ant 1 except on 20 where it went to Ant 2.
Well, I was pleased with myself for figuring that out but then started reading more of the manual. I have not read the manual for quite some time. So, as I was re-reading the manual I saw that the KAT 100 is a simple LC tuner. Now, I've been reading on Eham recently about 1/2 wave antennas and also random wire antennas. So, I started playing around with the KAT 100 on my 160 meter Inverted-L. Now the Inverted-L is not perfect, but the KAT-100 matched it quickly. Then, hey this should work on 80 and 40 too. It did quite well too. Then I tried it on 30 meters and it worked like a champ. I have not put up antennas for the new WARC bands so it was nice to know that I have at least 30 meters to work with. I have not tried to match the Inverted-L on the higher bands because I was having to much fun have a QSO.
The KAT100 is a great tuner...as I said the the subject line....I am simply amazed.
Lee - K0WA
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