[Elecraft] The KAT's in the house

[David Poplewski]

I'm happy to report that the big brown truck rolled in late this evening 
and delivered serial no 22 of the factory wired KAT500. Finally the 
KAT's in the house. The packaging was great. Well packed, and UPS 
handled it very well. The unit looks great. The manual that shipped with 
the unit obviously is not the final production manual as it says on page 
one "cover image TBD" and "draft XB October 11,2012. Certainly not a 
show stopper as I'm sure Elecraft will be sending final production 
manuals to early adopters when they are ready and available.
The only disappointment at this time is that Elecraft didn't address the 
one thing I ask them about at Dayton. To look into putting the wire bail 
on the bottom like the KPA500, so you could have the KPA500 on top of 
the KAT500 and elevate the package. Maybe they did look into and the 
real estate just wasn't available to accomplish it, but it sure would 
have been nice.
At any rate I will be re-configuring the shack over the weekend to get 
the KAT500 to start littering some RF and do some evaluation on 
performance on my antennas, which cover 160 mtr inverted V, 160-10mtr 
vertical, 80-10mtr delta loop and 20-10mtr TH7Dxx beam. Sorry for you 
6mtr guys but I don't have anything on 6.

73 David KC8IV