[Elecraft] kat500/kpa500 with kenwood transceiver

[Michael Walker]

I have a KPA500 on my TS480 and the only hookup I have is PTT.   I let the
KPA500 manage the band changes via RF sensing and I have never had an issue.

It just works as they say.

Mike va3mw


On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Cady, Fred <fcady at ece.montana.edu> wrote:

> The KPA500 can be set up to either monitor the Kenwood's interaction with
> a logging program by "listening" on the serial port or by polling the
> Kenwood when you do not have a PC connected to the Kenwood. The KAT500
> cannot do this and so can just change frequencies when it measures the
> transmission frequency.
>
> Cheers, happy new year,
> Fred KE7X
>
> Author of:
> "The Elecraft K3: Design, Configuration and Operation 2nd ed"
> "The Elecraft KX3 - Going for the summit"
> "The Elecraft KPA500 and KAT500 - the K-Line Dream Station"
> Printed, coil bound copies of these are all available at www.elecraft.com
> KPA500 and KAT500 Quick Set Up Guide
> http://www.ke7x.com/home/k-line-introduction-and-set-up-guide
> KAT500 and KXPA500 Tuner Operation
> http://www.ke7x.com/home/kat500-and-kxpa100-tuners
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> > steve foster
> > Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 2:05 PM
> > To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: [Elecraft] kat500/kpa500 with kenwood transceiver
> >
> > Hello,
> >   Is there a way using the data provided to have both the kpa500 and
> > the
> > kat500 change bands using the kenwood data stream.
> >   it was mentioned that there was an Arduino solution, any other
> > thoughts?
> > thanks in advance
> >
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