[Elecraft] KRC2 Setup

iain macdonnell - N6ML ar at dseven.org
Mon May 23 17:02:34 EDT 2011


That may be more a property of the configuration utility than the KRC2
itself? I have a Mac config utility (which I probably got directly
from W6FB) that does have a place for mapping the 6m band to any of
the driver outputs, although I haven't actually tried to use it...

    ~iain / N6ML


On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Brendan Minish <bminish at minish.org> wrote:
> Yes this will get 6m  sent on AUXBUS, BUT the KRC2 (at least the 2 I had
> here)  won't decode 6m to a relay driver
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> this REALLY is over-due fixing..
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> On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 19:38 +0000, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
>> There's a setting in the K3 that optionally maps the 6m band to 10m.
>> If that setting is enabled, you'll be trying to pass 6m through your
>> 10m BPF, which probably won't work well :) Go to CONFIG:KRC2 and tap
>> the '1' button until you see "bnd6=b6"
>>
>> 73,
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>>     ~iain / N6ML
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>> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>> > I've been loaned a W3NQN bandpass filter setup that uses an Array
>> > Solutions FM6 switch box controlled by a KRC2 connected to the Aux Bus
>> > of my K3. Everything seems to work fine on 160-10M, with those bands for
>> > which there are no filters being bypassed, but 6M doesn't get through
>> > the switching network.  There's a KRC2 config utility that I've
>> > downloaded and installed, and it fails to show any options for 6M other
>> > than for analog voltage band-decoding.  It does tell me that I have the
>> > latest version of the KRC2 firmware installed.
>> >
>> > Documentation on using the KRC2 and the config utility is something that
>> > only the programmer's mother could love. It refers to maps, but doesn't
>> > tell me how to set up those maps to cover 6M. Can anyone help me get
>> > this running by some means other than adding switches to bypass the
>> > switching matrix entirely?
>> >
>> > Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC
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