[Elecraft] KAT100 can't remember 160 meter settings

[Wayne Burdick]

Hi Rich,

You wrote:
 
> In working the 160 meter contest this weekend with a K2/100 and KAT100 combination, 
> I find that my 160 meter antenna settings in the KAT100 are lost on power cycling the K2. 
> The other bands seem to be fine.  Is anyone else seeing this?  Did I forget to set something?

When you switch antennas (using ANT1/2), the antenna selection is not recorded
in EEPROM until you have changed bands at least once, or until the 30-second
backup timer expires. (The backup timer is triggered whenever you move the VFO,
and expires after you have *stopped* moving it for 30 seconds or so.) This
behavior should be the same on all bands--there's nothing special about 160 meters.

In a future firmware revision we'll record ANT1/2 changes immediately.


> Also, every so often after auto-tuning, I get down to a 1:1 match, 
> but afterwards on transmit I get no power output indicated from the 
> K2/100 until I cycle through some other K2 controls.  
> I don't have any indications that there is RF in the shack.  Any ideas?

Does this happen when using a dummy load, or just when tuning into the antenna?

Wayne
N6KR