[Elecraft] KAT500 without KPA500

[Fred Jensen]

You were quite clear, at least to me.  The answer is YES.  The normal 
setup is the K3 AUX goes to the XCVR jack on the KAT500.  It gets 
frequency info.  *If* you have a KPA500, another such cable connects 
from the KAT500 to it.  If you don't have a KPA500, that connector is 
empty.  Does that answer your original question?

I don't know about the pussyfooting. [:-)

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Sparks NV DM09dn

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On 12/17/2016 4:43 PM, George Kidder wrote:
> I seem not to have made myself very clear.  Let's leave the amp (both
> the AL-80A and the KPS500 out of consideration - I can deal with those
> later.  My question is - can one use a _E850463 Aux cable_ to transfer
> band, frequency etc. information directly from the K3 to the KAT500,
> with no amplifier involved?  I know one can make use of the RCA cables
> to control the keying, and the amplifier will detect frequency,
> presumably from anything down to a Heath AT-1 (if anyone remembers what
> that was.)  This is not the question.  When controlled through the Aux
> cable, there are a number of useful functions available (along with
> keying control) which I would expect might be available if the Aux cable
> connected the K3 and the KAT3 directly.
>
> The KAT500 manual pussy-foots around this issue - there are hints that
> it might work, but no definitive statement.
>
> Has anyone tried this method?  With what results?  Dick's response seems
> to indicate that it won't work.
>
> George, W3HBM