[Elecraft] KPA1500 Antenna Select Suggestion

Gill hamop at protonmail.com
Fri Jan 17 11:06:31 EST 2020


I have two directional wire antennas for 160-40m that each work quite 
well with the KPA1500. I can electrically switch between the two 'for  
best signal' - they are on Ant port 1. Ant port 2 is dedicated to a beam 
for 20M up. The tuning solution for each is wire antenna is different 
enough to cause faults frequently when I switch from one to  the other 
at higher power.  The issue is quite annoying on 160M & 80M. I have 
tried erasing the memory & "re-learning" the solution for each antenna 
so there would be only two solutions per bin. That did not help much. It 
would be a great addition to the amp if a "virtual Antenna port 3" could 
be implemented with software to select a portion of the bins for 
memorizing tuning solutions for another antenna. A macro could be used 
to track the selected section of memory when switching from the "NW ant" 
to the "NE ant." Then (hopefully) the amp would switch to the new 
solution series before key down. I, for one, would consider this a great 
addition for use in contests.



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