[Elecraft] KAT500 Ant outlets

[Jim Brown]

On Sat,11/14/2015 7:09 PM, Robert Clark wrote:
> Doesn't the KAT500 come with a utility program already installed? And...can the unit be operated without a computer connection?

The KAT500 Utility is a CONFIGURATION UTILITY. Look at it. It allows the 
user to choose which outputs CAN be used on each band. That set of 
choices is saved to the unit. Then, during operation, the user chooses 
the output as he operates using a front panel button that cycles through 
those choices.

Let's say, for example, that my only 30M antenna is on output number 
three. I set the KAT500 so that it automatically goes there when I go to 
30M. Now, I have a 20M-6M SteppIR on output number one and a 20m 
monobander on output number 2. When I go to 20M, the Ant Selector button 
on the KAT500 toggles between output 1 and output 2.

This is a simple example. There are many possibilities. My station has 
monoband antennas for 160, 40, 20, 15, and 10, so I select them with an 
external switch to output number 2. And, like the previous example, my 
SteppIR is on output number 1. On these bands, the front panel button 
toggles me between outputs 1 and 2. I happen to have three antennas for 
40m, so the third one gets switched externally between it and the 30M 
antenna to output #3. So on 40M, the front panel button toggles between 
all three outputs.

Put up a new antenna?  Use the KAT500 Utility to change the config as 
you need it.

Hope this helps.

73, Jim K9YC