[Elecraft] KPA-500 / K3 firmware suggestion

[iain macdonnell - N6ML]

This occurred to me when I was looking at the prototype at Pacificon
last year. It'd be somewhat non-trivial to implement, though ...
there'd either have to be some negotiation between the K3 and the
KPA500 to get the right drive level for the user-requested output, or
a lot of calibration. Perhaps the current (actual) output could be
reported from the KPA500 to the K3 via AUXBUS, and the K3 could dial
its drive level up or down to achieve the requested final output......

     ~iain / N6ML



On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Toby Deinhardt <dj7mgq at muenchen-mail.de> wrote:
> Hi Wayne & the list,
>
> not sure if this has been suggested before, but it would be really nifty
> if when using a KPA-500 together with a K3/100 the power would be
> continuously be adjustable from milliwatts up to 500 W.
>
> The firmware would automagically switch the KPA-500 in at power levels
>  >100 W, i.e. a little like the crossover at the 10 W level.
>
> KPA-500 kit on order.
>
> vy 73 de toby
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