Regarding my questions below... I was reminded that the KAT500 utility has a save feature which I did dutifully use after I set all my memory tune spots.
I have now restored my saved configurations. But, I would still like to know if this is the normal behavior -- that is, a loss of power means loss of memory meaning that the memory for the KAT500 is totally volatile?? I am pretty sure I have unplugged the equipment at times and have not lost anything so I am still confused of what is normal behavior on a power loss. 73, phil, K7PEH > On Dec 10, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Phil Hystad <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
