[Elecraft] More KAT500 PTT Questions

[Don Wilhelm]

OK, that is a revelation to me.  Sorry that I did not read that in the 
manual.
I stand down in light of more informed designers and testers..

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/5/2012 4:31 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
> That's not true, Don... the KAT500 *will* auto-tune if/when VSWR
> exceeds a (configurable, per-band) threshold.
>
> A lot of consideration is being put into different ways of handling
> "hot-switching" situations with various types of amplifiers. The
> currently-posted provisional manual may not be reflective of the final
> result of this consideration.....
>
> 73,
>
>      ~iain / N6ML
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> Ed,
>>
>> The KAT500 is not *that* automatic.  It will not automatically re-tune
>> even if it senses a high SWR.  You must tell it to tune. Once it has
>> been tuned to each antenna and bend segment, returning to that set of
>> tuning parameters is automatic - just go to that frequency and antenna
>> and the proper tuning will be recalled.
>>
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>>
>> On 11/5/2012 3:41 PM, Ed G wrote:
>>> or will PTT open whenever the KAT500 senses a high SWR and retunes, even if
>>> on the same band? It would be impractical for me to anticipate KAT500
>>> retuning when moving into a new band segment and try to shut down the amp
>>> per the procedure on page 13.
>>>
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