[Elecraft] Using KAT500 With Antenna Switch

[Jim Brown]

On 1/26/2013 3:08 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Because of that situation, you might want to consider another coax run 
> to the shack, one for the HexBeam and another for the dipole, and let 
> the KAT500 do the switching.  That way the KAT500 will remember the 
> (per band segment) settings for each antenna - once it is tuned for 
> each band segment, there is no need for re-tuning. 

Yes, that would be a very good move -- IF you use more than one antenna 
on the same band. NOT particularly helpful if you don't.

For example, I have a 6-port switch that automatically connects the 
right one of six single-band antennas to one port of my KAT500, with 
control of that switch by a band decoder. I run my SteppIR direct to 
another KAT500 port.  Since the KAT500 always sees the same switched 
antennas on each band, it remembers the right settings and all is well.

73, Jim K9YC