[Elecraft] Need help with kat500 utility

[Richard Donner]

Hi
 I believe for some intermittent time the tuner did not move the caps to
the antenna side.  It is working now though.
All these boxes we have are computer controlled.  I
Thanks all


On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:27 PM Richard Donner <richarddnnr2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
> Well I checked the  antenna and it is just as before the problem.
>   Is the capacitor setting normally checked by default?
>     This setting was not chosen automatically.
>
>   After I  enabled the capacitor setting the tuner tuned immediately to a
> low SWR on the low end of the band.
> I noticed that now it is automatically chosen.
> This has been a nice study time to figure how this tuner works.  It seems
> fine now.
> Thanks for  the help  all seems well.
>
> On another note , my k3 has reached its 15  birthday year
> Thanks all
> Richard
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 1:48 PM Richard Donner <richarddnnr2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I  have some question about the operate tab in the kat500 utility.
>> In the "others"  what should be checked off?
>> "caps on the Ant side"
>> "amp key interrupt"
>> "attenuator"
>>   Not sure what these things do.
>>
>> I had been using my kat500 for years and all of a sudden low SWR
>> matches  could not be found on one of my antennas.   It was odd because
>> everything was fine yesterday.
>> I found by checking "caps on the Ant side"  Ii could get a match in
>> manual mode.
>>  I wonder if that had been checked and all of a sudden it stopped being
>> checked?
>>
>> Also I wonder if the"amp key interrupt "  was ever set properly.
>> How should it be set with a KPA500 amplifier all cabled up.
>> I did not see a simple explanation what these kat500 setting are for.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.  I think I am going for a walk
>> Thanks   Richard wa6kyr
>>
>>
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