[Elecraft] Re: KIO2 Required if you Remote the KPA100?

[Don Brown]

Hi

Sorry I would have responded sooner but I was in Crawford Texas all day
yesterday upgrading one of the controllers and the firmware for a rather
famous person's waste water treatment plant.

The simplest way to do the remote mount is with a KIO2 in the K2. You only
need to build a 9 pin to 9 pin cable, buy or build a BNC cable for the RF
and the usual power cable.

It is possible to make a cable that plugs into the control board directly to
a 9 pin connector on the back of the K2 but you will need to duplicate the
filtering in the KIO2 on the pins of the 9 pin D connector to keep RF off of
the AUX BUSS and other control lines. You will need to come up with your own
source of parts and connectors to make this cable and of course this will
not supply any RS232 signals.

The best method is the KIO2 in the K2. The RS232 part of the IO in the
KPA100 is not used in this setup. The RS232 cable is a "Y" cable that plugs
into the KIO2 with one connector for the computer and the other for the
remote KPA100/KAT100

You will need to order the KPA100, KAT100-2, an EC2 and the tilt stand if
you want one and a KIO2 to make this all work. You will also need a ~2 ft
BNC to BNC 50 ohm cable to connect the remote unit to the K2, a short pl239
to pl239 50 ohm cable to connect the KPA100 to the KAT100 and the power
supply cables for the KPA100 and the K2

Don Brown
KD5NDB


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hammond N�SS" <n0ss@earthlink.net>
To: "Don Brown" <DolfinDon@msn.com>; "Lyle Johnson" <wa7gxd@fidalgo.net>
Cc: "Martin" <dl1iaq@t-online.de>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:10 AM
Subject: KIO2 Required if you Remote the KPA100?


> Lyle/Don:
>
> Just received this note from Martin (DL1IAQ) and figgered you could
respond
> much more appropriately to his query than I.
>
> Please respond to him directly and via the reflector, for the benefit of
us
> all.
>
> Thanks, appreciated!
>
> Tom
> ________________
>
> Hello Tom.
> I sent an email to the reflector yesterday, but today it is not on the
> reflector.
>
> Now i ask you directly, coz i believe that there would have been
> a reply from you anyway ;-)
>
> Planning to order a KPA100 & KAT100 to install them in EC2,
> i wonder wether i need an extra KIO or will i be fine with the one
> supplied with the KPA100.
> ...............................................................
> Hope not to bother you.
>
> 73
> Martin
>