On 9/3/2012 11:15 AM, H A Layer wrote: > But, while we are waiting, would it be possible to make a pdf file > available of the operator's manual
As a beta tester, I can tell you that 1) the tuner works great, but operating details and firmware are still being developed on the basis of response from beta testers, and it's WAY too early to publish a manual. The main thing you need to know is that it's a 3-output tuner, the user interface is going to be pretty much like other Elecraft products, and it's going to be a really nice box. It will, for example, remember antenna settings per band for each output, just like the tuner in the K3. In other words, everything you need to know is in the product description on the website. Over the past few months, I've been reconfiguring my antenna switching to feed my various antennas that way. In my station, I can use a SteppIR on 20-6M, or I can use individual Yagis for 10, 15, and 20, so I put the SteppIR on one output and a selector switch (relays, actually) for the Yagis on another output. I have three antennas for 80 and 40, so they are switched to the three ports, again using relays. Someone with a smaller antenna farm, perhaps a tri-bander, a vertical, and a dipole would simply run one to each output. The primary thing to remember when thinking about switching is that the tuner will remember antennas per band (and even for various parts of a band), so you want to set up your switching so that on any band, a given tuner always sees the same antenna. Another thing you'll need to know, which is in common with virtually all antenna tuners, is that it ALWAYS tunes barefoot, and that it will tune with a QRP signal. The KAT500 includes RCA jacks that blocks the power amp from transmitting when the KAT500 is tuning. The connection is quite simple -- there are two RCA jacks on the back of the KAT500, and you simply run the amplifier keying line from the K3 to the KAT500, and another RCA cable from there to your power amp. Nothing could be simpler. There are some really sharp guys doing the beta testing, and with a wide variety of stations and antenna farms, from the sublime to the ordinary. They've been giving Elecraft some great input, finding things that Elecraft has been fixing, and suggesting features that Elecraft has been busily adding to the software and firmware. You're gonna love it. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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
