[Elecraft] KPA 1500 - SO2R

[charlie carroll]

Wayne:
Can you provide a bit more detail on the "amp's antenna and ATU 
switches?"  What is your design currently capable of directly 
controlling, e.g. sink/source, number of output lines, do they need more 
decoding, etc.

thanks
73 charlie, k1xx

On 4/25/2017 10:50 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> Gerald,
>
> SO2R done correctly requires extensive path shielding, switching components, and control circuitry. Adding these would increase the size and cost of the KPA1500 for all customers, while only a small percentage would make use of them. So we feel that an external controller providing SO2R or other specialized switching would be more appropriate.
>
> KPA1500 firmware will be updated to fully support such products as we identify them. We oversized the microcontroller memory by a factor of about 8 to allow for such expansion. In addition to SO2R, there may be other gear such as antenna switches that we can directly control from the amp’s antenna and ATU switches, and status can be shown on the 32-character LCD.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
>
>> On Apr 24, 2017, at 8:18 PM, Jerry Muller via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gang:
>>      Looking for some info. From the PDF and pictures  it looks like this
>> amp will NOT do SO2R.  Is that correct?
>>
>> Gerald Muller K9GEM
>> GMuller885 at aol.com
>
>
>
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