[Elecraft] KPA-1500 wish list

[Jim Brown]

The simple solution to this is to TX a dit before making the call. I've 
done this for years when working with auto-detect equipment like the 
KAT500, KPA500, and 87A. On SSB, the equivalent is to tap the mic.

73, Jim K9YC

On 11/20/2019 6:40 AM, N4ZR wrote:

> 
> I'd love to have 50-ohm resonant antennas on every band.  Short of that, 
> there does not appear to be any way around the ATU's need  to identify 
> which antenna is selected by the external switch, before it can decide 
> which stored setting to apply.  This takes a measurable amount of time, 
> as much as one character of 30 WPM CW, and I'm told that until this 
> process is completed, the amplifier is bypassed.  I've observed, for 
> example, that when I pounce on a CQer significantly far away from the 
> frequency of my last QSO, the "N" in my call becomes "E", or goes away 
> entirely, as heard by the other station.