When the K3 is set to a transverter band, its BAND outputs on the AUX cable go to all zeros. This is described on page 19 of the K3 manual. The KPA will see this as a switch to the 60m band, and thus will go to that band, displaying 5.3. Thus the behavior you guys describe is the correct one for both devices.
You can actually fool the KPA into changing to a different band (although you’ll have a very difficult time getting it to go to 2 meters…) by setting the CONFIG:KIO3 to TRN, and then assigning the TRN settings in the menu. Again this is described on page 19 of the K3 user manual. Note, however, that if you do this, the K3 will not output the BAND signals for HF band operation, instead setting them to all zeros. This doesn’t make the KPA500 unusable, though, since it will automatically select the proper HF band when it does see HF energy on its input. Still, this might not provide the desired user interface for most ops. Since the K144XV (or any other transverter) does not output power through the standard K3 SO-239 connectors, there should be no problems with the KPA seeing RF on its input. Still, setting the KPA to STBY would be a good idea when you are using the 2 meter transverter. - Jack Brindle, W6FB Elecraft Engineering > > On Mar 15, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Mine does the same > Maybe a feature request to have the display in the KPA500 to show AUX? > > > > > > > > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: 'Jim Miller' <[email protected]>; 'Elecraft Reflector' > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 3:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [KPA500] Front panel AUX button? > > The AUX button on my KPA500 switched my K3 to 144.200 mHz, and itself to 5.3 > MHZ. Whatever that's good for... > > 73 Jeff kb2m > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
