So, besides the nice warm weather (64 degrees today) we have a bit of gusty 
winds in the greater Seattle (Puget Sound) area tonight.  I lost power ever so 
briefly, about 2 seconds maybe, during dinner at 5:45 PM.  But, enough to cause 
restart of all the equipment except for laptop and other battery operated 
things and battery backup saved iMac-24 from a restart.

I get on a CW Net at 6:30 PM (just a few minutes ago) and realized that my 
KAT500 tuned memory sections were out of whack.  In fact, gone as if they did 
not exist.  Doing a retune took the longest time of clicking relays and SWR 
racing all over the place as if the match was being searched from minus 
infinity.

This may be he first time I have had such a situation since I got the KAT500 
and I was one of the early adopters.

Questions:

1.  Is it normal behavior to lose saved memory values of tuned positions.  I 
checked other spots and nothing is saved on the entire 80-meter band — I mean, 
I had high-SWR on all of my 20 KHz sections.

2.  Or, is there something else happening.  I have heard that the K3/KAT500 
combo gets messed up if the K3 comes alive before the KAT500.  Is that possibly 
what happened here?  I was not in the room when this happened so I am assuming 
that power on startup was a race and I am thinking that the KAT500 might be 
first but I don’t know.

3.  I am assuming I have to reprogram all my memory locations for all three of 
my antennas (80/40/30 meter dipoles).

73, phil, K7PEH
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