[Elecraft] KPA500 and KAT500 Ports

[Brendan Minish]

Every time this comes up everyone seems to forget about the KRC2, it
speaks auxbus leaving the BCD outputs available for other things and is
a very flexible device 
It does need 6m support to be properly sorted out but other than that it
does a superb job of controlling just about any remote antenna switch
you can come up with.



On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 12:30 -0400, Edward Dickinson III wrote:
> It's been said that the KPA500 might be either desktop or remote.
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> If this is the case, I would suppose a similar, add-on antenna switch could
> be offered.
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> 73,
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> Dick - KA5KKT
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> The other thing that seems to be missing.  The K3 ought to be switching 
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> the antenna switchbox, not the computer or some other device.
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> The reason is obvious, the proper antenna will always be connected 
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> quickly.  The same cannot be said for other approaches.
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> I used to use computer switching with a transceiver that had no BCD 
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> output via a logging program.  Pouncing on a spot and transmitting often 
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> resulted in the wrong antenna still being attached and then hot 
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> switching of the correct on in line.  Not nice with an amp attached.
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> If some other slower device has to be used, some kind of inhibit signal 
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> should be applied to the K3 until switching or switching + tuning is 
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> complete.
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> 73 de Brian/K3KO
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73
Brendan EI6IZ