[Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks

[Fred Jensen]

On 1/31/2014 12:59 PM, XE3/K5ENS wrote:
> We're also working on a new feature that will allow the K3 to retune the
> KAT500 automatically, in receive mode, each time the VFO is moved. This
> feature would be turned on/off in a K3 menu entry (default would be off). By
> "retune," I mean that the KAT500 would select an LC combination that had
> been previously stored for the applicable band segment--the same thing that
> happens when the tuner measures the transmit frequency.
>
> *Wayne,
>
> So this will only work if you connect to a K3?
>
> Keith*

Ummm ... I suppose "no," if somebody else's radio will speak properly to 
the KAT500 on that multi-conductor interface cable.  The odds of a 
non-Elecraft radio doing that are probably lower than the odds I'm 
pregnant with twins. :-)  So, practically, I guess the answer is "yes."

73,

Fred K6DGW
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