[Elecraft] KAT500 Antenna Memories

[Cady, Fred]

Hi Joel,

I think you probably need to go into the KAT500 Utility to the Antenna Configuration screen.  You can check and uncheck the antennas needed for each band.  I don't have my station set up at the moment but something like this might work:

Select Band 17 and 12, check Ant 1 and click apply

Select Band 20, 15, 10 and 6, check Ant 2 and click apply

Select Band 160, 80, 60, 40, and 30, check Ant 3 and click apply.


Tuner mode will be selected when you are on a band and you select the mode.

Note that you should train the tuner on 160, 80, 60, 40 and 30 and then run Manual mode, not auto mode.

Cheers,

Fred KE7X



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From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Joel Hallas <jrhallas at optonline.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2018 3:10 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] KAT500 Antenna Memories

I don't think my KAT500 (FW 01.75) is old enuf to suffer from the kind of
memory problems I have, but it doesn't seem to do what I expect it to do. I
was just changing my antenna lineup and I have three antennas connected to
the rear:

Ant 1 -- a 17/12 m coupled resonator dipole -- wants to be in bypass mode
Ant 2 -- a 20/15/10 tribander with 6 m 3el coupled resonator -- wants to be
in bypass mode
Ant 3 -- an 80 CF-zepp -- wants to be in auto mode and used on 160, 80, 60,
40 and 30 meters

Each antenna wants to be the default on the bands shown, although Ant 3 can
be used on all bands, I can change manually if needed.

I can cause the tuner to remember to change antennas as I change bands, but
it won't seem to remember whether to be in auto or bypass mode as the band
changes. This is the case whether I just set it and use it on the bands, or
if I try using the config program (1.16.7.25) to force it. I don't think I'm
asking it to do more than it should -- am I missing a crucial step or
setting?

Joel Hallas, W1ZR
Westport, CT


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