[Elecraft] KPA500 RESET??

[joeduerbusch]

Hi Jack sorry to bother you on the weekend.  I did get  the KPA500
working.  Don't know what I did but I played around with the DDUtil a bit
and it started working.
The DDUtil acts as a bridge between the Flex and the KPA500.   The DDUtil
reads information from the Flex and send it to the KPA500.
It makes the KPA500 follow the Flex during band changes.  It also had a
features called AutoDrive that lets the user set the Amp drive and the
Barefoot drive.
It knows when the KPA500 is offline or off and sets the drive accordingly.

I do think it was inhibiting the PTT as even with the KPA500 in OPER there
was NO *.
Turning off the computer and turning off the KPA500 did not seem to reset
the problem.

I don't think it is an issue with the KPA500.

Joe K0BX


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On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Jack Brindle <jackbrindle at me.com> wrote:

> I’ll echo Cliff’s questions, and ask a few more. My reading of DDUtil says
> it
> extracts frequency information from the SDR and presents it to external
> devices. Unless it has been expanded with further functionality, I don’t
> see
> how it would key the amplifier.
>
> With this in mind, please describe exactly how you have the KPA500
> connected
> to the FLEX, including the connected ports and signals.
>
> Also, the answers to Cliff’s questions are important. If the asterisk does
> not
> appear, then the amplifier is not seeing the PTT signal activated.
>
> And, from what you have already said, the processor appears to be running
> just fine.
> The CPU does a self check on power-up, which says that the program is just
> fine.
> The fact that any information is being displayed also says that it is
> working. I
> strongly suspect that the answer is elsewhere, most likely in the
> interfacing
> to your rig and computer. With some more info, we should be able to help
> you solve this riddle.
>
> 73,
>
> Jack Brindle, W6FB
> Elecraft Engineering
>
> > On Dec 26, 2015, at 8:33 AM, joeduerbusch <k0bx at arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> > I got a new KPA500 for Christmas.  It worked fine.
> > But I tried to interface it with my FLEX-6300 using a program Called
> DDUTIL.
> > DDUTIL connected to both the Flex and KPA500 but now I have NO KPA500
> > keying.  Yes I have the PA Key hooked up.  Without the DDUTIL the KPA500
> > worked
> > and changed bands by RF.  That doesn't work either.
> >
> > Is there a HARD RESET for the KPA500 as I think its computer is locked up
> >
> > Joe K0BX
> >
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