OK, that is a revelation to me. Sorry that I did not read that in the manual. I stand down in light of more informed designers and testers..
73, Don W3FPR On 11/5/2012 4:31 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote: > That's not true, Don... the KAT500 *will* auto-tune if/when VSWR > exceeds a (configurable, per-band) threshold. > > A lot of consideration is being put into different ways of handling > "hot-switching" situations with various types of amplifiers. The > currently-posted provisional manual may not be reflective of the final > result of this consideration..... > > 73, > > ~iain / N6ML > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ed, >> >> The KAT500 is not *that* automatic. It will not automatically re-tune >> even if it senses a high SWR. You must tell it to tune. Once it has >> been tuned to each antenna and bend segment, returning to that set of >> tuning parameters is automatic - just go to that frequency and antenna >> and the proper tuning will be recalled. >> >> 73, >> Don W3FPR >> >> On 11/5/2012 3:41 PM, Ed G wrote: >>> or will PTT open whenever the KAT500 senses a high SWR and retunes, even if >>> on the same band? It would be impractical for me to anticipate KAT500 >>> retuning when moving into a new band segment and try to shut down the amp >>> per the procedure on page 13. >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
