We would expect nothing less than doing it right from the Elecraft team! On 8/9/2011 5:16 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > This will be our first high-power tuner, so we're taking the time to > do it right. We have to ensure that it's safe and reliable as well as > fast and accurate. Our KAT500 design experience will also lay the > groundwork for future ATUs that handle higher power and offer > additional features. > > We have a small team working on it. Among other tasks, they've had to > completely model the L-network and its strays, ensure that all > components have a significant safety margin during worst-case > operating stresses, and evaluate electrical and physical interactions > with various radios and amplifiers. We're writing a new rapid-matching > algorithm to work with the ATU's special sense circuitry. We just > added an option module to provide a fully-protected sub receiver > output port, so the K3's sub receiver can use the non-transmit KAT500 > antenna for diversity receive -- just like the KAT3. > > Then there's the usual -- PCB, enclosure, manuals, and a considerable > amount of lab and field testing. Right in the middle of vacation > season :) > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > > > On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > >> Considering the number of KPA-500 owners awaiting the KAT-500 along >> with >> folks keeping their powder dry on ordering a KPA-500 until the >> KAT-500 is >> released and the number of KPA-500 owners that have expressed a wish >> to >> order a KAT-500 I would have thought we would have seen information >> start to >> trickle out on more detail...:-( >> >> Maybe I am being too simplistic but I thought that an auto-tuner >> would not >> be all that difficult to design and that given the time that has >> passed >> since word was released that the KAT-500 was coming we would have >> seen more >> Ele-News...:-( > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
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