[Elecraft] KAT-500 brain trust question

[john at kk9a.com]

So apparently there is a way to automatically bypass the tuner on some
bands but unfortunately the lighted switch does not indicate this. Many
people have monoband beams (or a SteppIR) with a near perfect match on
10-20m and may only need the tuner for a couple of bands. I would also
like to have N6WM's feature request. I wonder how the KPA-1500's tuner
handles this?

John KK9A



Chris Tate - N6WM ctate at ewnetinc.com
Sun Jul 30 18:39:54 EDT 2017

Don thanks for this, indeed this is the current solution.  Although it is
rather obscure as far as indicators on the front panel.

I would like to convert this to a feature request, as It would be nice if
the firmware supported, and there was another matrix in the KAT500 Utility
that would permit a hard bypass with indicator on a per band basis.  Gives
that warm fuzzy its doing exactly what you want..

E.g. qsy to 20m.. bypass light comes on..

Chris
N6WM