[Elecraft] [KAT500] Planning for KAT500

[Phil Hystad]

I am on the waiting list for my KAT500 -- waiting - waiting - waiting

But, in the mean time I am planning for how I want to arrange the switching of my various antennas.  I understand the KAT500 has 3 antenna connections so first a couple of questions:

1.  Will the automatic features of the tuner include automatic band switching ?   That is, if I am operating on my 80 meter dipole and then I switch my K3 to the 20 meter band will my 20-meter Hexbeam automatically be switched in (assuming I have it also connected to the KAT500)?

2.  I have four antennas:  80-meter dipole, 40-meter dipole, and 30-meter dipole, plus my Traffie Hexbeam that handles 20 meter through 10 meters.  I would like to hook up permanently my 80 meter and the Traffie hexbeam to two of the KAT500 antenna connections and then also switch in the 40-meter dipole and 30-meter dipole into the third antenna connection on the KAT500.  So, let's say I am on 40 meters and I switch to 30 meters but I need to also manually switch my 40-meter and 30-meter since they share the same port.  Will the KAT500 know how to handle this?  [Note:  my 30-meter dipole though is 1.3:1 and better across the entire 30-meter band so maybe I don't even need the KAT500].

3.  How do I tell the KAT500 that the five bands (20m thru 10m) are found on one given antenna connection (to my hexbeam)?  Or, does the KAT500 learn this or do I manually help it out by some stored assignment.

4.  Which brings up my final question:  will the KAT500 be a "smart" device with a computer interface like many other Elecraft devices?  Is this how I might preset bands to be associated with antenna connections.  Note, my 80-meter dipole can actually work well on 40 and 30 but not as well as my 40-meter and 30-meter dipoles.

73, phil, K7PEH