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

[Wallace, Andy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Lorenz [mailto:ml@vdazone.org]

> Once you do this your way, you assume that no KAT2 is built in the K2.
> This however is one of the few reasons why one would want to 
> remote the KPA in the first place. 

Mario, what Don was proposing was per my request: my intention was
to run the QRP K2 and KAT100 together -- WITHOUT having either
the KAT2 OR the KIO2. It's my intention, if I get a K2, to get
the KPA100 a little while later -- but I need a tuner with my antenna
setup. Rather than buying the K2 and KAT2 for QRP use, I wanted to
have the KAT100. I also did not want to buy the KIO2 to communicate
with the KAT100 if possible, because that (like the KAT2) would be
surplus to my needs once I did foot the bill for the KPA100.

The K2 would have the KAT100 under it and eventually have the KPA100
in the top cover, not remoted at all.

Does that make sense? Hopefully this will make things clear.
Don wasn't going in the direction you were talking about at all -
it was just a solution for what I was proposing. 

I never intend to have a computer in the hamshack, so not having
RS232 control is not an issue for me -- I just needed a way for the
K2 bus to talk to the KAT100 without the KIO2 (unendorsed by Elecraft
of course!).

-Andy