Popular wisdom is that KAT500 should be trained for all frequencies in a band and then operated in manual mode. This is what I do at my station but I find the training process to be a bit tedious and I'm considering automating the training process.
My idea is that, within the current band, the rig TX frequency will be set in sequence to the center of each KAT500 frequency "bin" . At each bin center auto tune will be initiated at low power. If the result is below a preset SWR threshold the next "bin" will be selected and the steps repeated. If the auto tune does not result in an SWR below threshold then the sequence will be paused to allow a manual tune attempt. All the required hardware interfaces are already implemented in my Arduino controller and the code requirements don't seem to be too complex. Has anyone attempted this auto training idea before and, if so, what problems were experienced? Andy, k3wyc ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
