Hi guys: Lesson learned! I should not be attempting remote ops to my station on Maryland's Eastern Shore during the summer months. We get lightning strikes, and I got creamed a couple weeks ago. Everything was hooked up, and I am now having to replace my Orion 2800 rotor, and repair or replace my Green Heron RT-21 rotor controller, my TopTen band decoder, my Alpha DAS band decoder and some PolyPhaser lightning protection gear at the tower. The PolyPhaser failed to protect the rotor, and the rotor and relay lines from the tower run 350 ft. to my house. I needed protection at both ends.
I will be a long time coming back from this. Now for the Elecraft part of this long whine... The good news: The K3 and the KPA500 survived. The bad news: The KAT500 is not behaving. It is not going through its normal tuning cycle, and the one or two times it did, into a dummy load, it left all the SWR lights on. That is not normal. if the K3 shows SWR= 1.1, the KAT500 should show the same. I can connect to the KAT500 from the PC using the KAT500 utility program, and that is all normal. I loaded in the last set of good parameters. This made no difference. Anyone have any troubleshooting steps to suggest? And, my W2 Wattmeter is completely dead, no lights at all. Or only a brief flash of all the top line of yellow lights, and then nothing. I cannot talk to the W2 using the utility program. I have no idea if the directional coupler survived. Same question --- where do I begin? I will try to send both to Elecraft for repair, but if there is something simple I can do here, that would be great. Thanks for any help you can provide. 73 de Brian *Brian F. Wruble, C.F.A. ______________________________________________________________ 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
