[Elecraft] KPA500 #1584 alive an running

Richard Ferch ve3iay at storm.ca
Tue Jul 23 16:30:04 EDT 2013


DL1OLI wrote:

> the K3 shows messages from the KPA500 if I press OPER/STBY but shouldn't the K3 \
> decrease the power to 40W in OPER ? And in standby increase to 100W?
>
> Fw K3: 4.60 FE KPA:1.23
>
> What can be the fault?

Oli, IIRC you need to set the K3's CONFIG:PWR SET menu item to PER BAND 
to make this work. In PER BAND mode, the K3 will remember two different 
power settings on each band; one when the KPA500 is off or in STANDBY, 
and a different one for when the KPA500 is in OPERATE.

73,
Rich VE3KI


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