I have had the IC-7610 and the KPA500/KAT500 for over three years and it works very well when I switch bands with the intention of transmitting. My "nit" to pick is that the KAT500, as has been said, can not be preset by the IC-7610 in receive. It can preset the KPA500, for all bands but WARC, by using a DIY "band data" voltage cable (Icom doesn't support band data voltages for the WARC bands).
If I want to *listen* to different frequencies on the IC-7610 that are on different antennas connected to the KAT500 I have to manually select the antenna on the KAT500. This makes scanning frequencies on the IC-7610 impossible. The KPA1500, that combines an amp and antenna matcher (aka tuner), can read Icom CI-V data and preset both the amp and the "tuner". This feature should have been/should be available for the KPA500 and KAT500. I believe the KPA500 and KAT500 can read data from Kenwood and Yaesu transceivers. Why was Icom left out of the mix? Ken WA2LBI On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 4:33 PM CUTTER DAVID via Elecraft < [email protected]> wrote: > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
