5.3mhz is the indication at 60m has been selected. Usually means something is wrong other than the cable since all lines must be high or low. I forget which.
Jim ab3cv On Aug 7, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Mark E. Musick <[email protected]> wrote: My K3S and KPA500 track correctly on 30 meters. If I select 30 meters from the KPA500 front panel both go to 30 meters. When I select 30 meters on the K3S the KPA500 goes to 30. I routinely use the KPA500 to run 200 Watts on 30. This was also true for the K3 I had before the K3S. Check your cables again connecting the K3 aux port to the KPA500. Remove them and reset them and see if that changes anything. I had a similar issue and that solved the problem. I don't know why that solved the problem, but the issue has not reoccurred. Also, after you added 30 to the band map, did you turn the K3 off then back on as suggested in the manual when making changes in the menu? Mark Musick, WB9CIF -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cliff Frescura Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 10:20 PM To: 'Dauer, Edward' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 Band Tracking "But the KPA doesn’t track the K3’s band choice correctly." ...it's by design. In the US the maximum power on 30m is 200W PEP. http://www.arrl.org/frequency-allocations 73, Cliff K3LL/6 -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dauer, Edward Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2016 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] KPA500 Band Tracking I must have done something I didn’t mean to do. Just put up a 30 meter antenna today. It works fine. Until today I had the K3 band map set to include only 80-40-20-15-10. The KPA500 tracked it automatically perfectly. I then went into the config menu for band map and set 30 meters to IN. The K3 works perfectly – band switching gives me, in MHz, 3.5 – 7.0 – 10.1 – 14.0 – 21.0 – 28.0 and then cycles back to 3.5 That is also exactly what I expected. But the KPA doesn’t track the K3’s band choice correctly. For 80 I get 80. For 40 on the K3 I get 80 on the KPA500. For 30 on the K3 I get 5.3MHz on the KPA500. For 20 I get 20. For 15 I get 15. And for 10 on the K3 I get 24.9 MHz on the KPA500. Interestingly, the “Band” buttons on the KPA500 have the same errors. In MHz, pressing 1.8 yields 5.3. 3.5 is OK. Pressing 7.0 produces 3.5. 14 and 21 are OK. And pressing 28 produces 24.9. The frequency sampling, however, works perfectly. A single dit on any band switches the KPA500 to the correct band, as defined by the K3. The cables are all Elecraft issue. They are all connected correctly – witness that everything worked perfectly, on every band, until I added 30M into the K3’s band map. Because both the K3 auto tracking feature and the Band buttons on the KPA500 yield the same errors, I think I must have messed up something in the amp. I have, by the way, already RdTFM. Any ideas about what I might have done? Equally useful would be, how do I undo it? Many thanks for whatever anyone can suggest . . . Ted, KN1CBR ______________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
