[Elecraft] KPA-500 Fault - follow up
Edward
navydude1962 at yahoo.com
Sat May 16 15:28:17 EDT 2020
All,
I tried to firmly seat all of the connectors. No change. I finally pulled them out and only used the keying cable (RCA to RCA). No change. One thing I noticed is that the KAT 500 was giving me Power and SWR reading, but no amplification from the amplifier. And if I had any more than 12w of drive power from the K3, the amp would not give me any reading at all. Dropping it back to under 12w, the Pwr/SWR readings would be visible again.
I decided to disconnect the antenna from the KAT 500 altogether and connected straight into the amp. Low and behold, I now have the amp working again!
Hence, the problem is with the KAT500 tuner. I am thinking that a factory reset would do the trick. Question is, how do you reset a KAT 500 to factory default? The manual states to do it with a computer. Any buttons I can push on the tuner itself for restoring the factory defaults?
Thanks,
Ed NI6S
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