Richard, I noticed the same thing with my new KPA500. I searched the archives and found this note from Jack at Elecraft.
Dave, N4QS This is a timing problem in the communications, and will be fixed in the next firmware release. Jack Brindle, W6FB Elecraft Engineering On Jun 7, 2011, at 10:05 AM, John K3TN wrote: > If I hit the Oper/Stby buttons on the KPA500, the K3 displays a message and > selects the proper power drive level. However, I've enabled BAND CHG to > STBY, which switches the KPA500 to STBY whenever I change bands. It does > that, but going to STANDBY by changing bands does NOT send the STBY message > to the K3, so the K3 drive level stays at the OPER level, even though the > KPA500 is in STBY. > > Shouldn't the KPA500 tell the K3 it has gone to standby via QSY? That would > keep things in synch better. > > John K3TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Squire - HB9ANM" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 2:05 PM Subject: [Elecraft] One minor issue with the KPA500 > My KPA500 is working like a champ with my K3 and AUX cable. > But I noticed when BAND CHG is set to STBY (which I prefer in order to avoid > tuning my dipole on the new band with 400 W instead of 20 W by mistake!), > the KPA500 does go into STBY when changing bands but the K3 keeps the lower > power setting and does not return to 100 W. This does not happen if BAND CHG > is set to NOR. > Anyone else noticed this? > I guess that can be resolved in some future FW release > > 73 > Richard > > > ----- > Richard - HB9ANM > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/One-minor-issue-with-the-KPA500-tp6538841p6538841.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
