[Elecraft] My KAT500 is sick :(
Time to ask for advice... I have off the air at the home shack for 6 months because of work. I covered up everything, all disconnect from antennas and power. Now work is back to normal so on my vacation I unpacked the K3, P3, and KAT500 and began hooking all up again--the only difference from before is that I improved the ground system. The K3 worked Ok except somehow there were a bunch of errors of modules not working that were not even installed (?), but that was easily fixed and I updated the firmware. All good. Same with the P3. However, the KAT500 does not respond to the utility and is locked on ant. 1. It does seem to tune, but something is wrong. I checked with a spare KUSB, but no luck there. I checked cables, etc., and all seems Ok, so I thought best to ask before trying anything else. Any ideas where to start? Thanks and 73 for now. Scott. AA0AA, XE1/AA0AA Sent from Scott's iPad __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] My KAT500 is sick :(
I was afraid of that. I am in the shack now to try it again, but it is the same. I live where it is dry so I haven't open it yet to check for something loose or corroded. I was hoping for some magic solution from here first! Do you think it is worthwhile to try that (the ham way!) first before calling? I built so am not afraid of that, but wanted to look for advice first. Scott Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2015, at 19:54, Mike Flowers mike.flow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Scott, The KAT500 is pretty resilient, so if it's not responding to the utility after a power cycle, then time to call Elecraft support. - 73 and good DX de Mike, K6MKF, President - NCDXC -Original Message- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Scott via Elecraft Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 4:10 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] My KAT500 is sick :( Time to ask for advice... I have off the air at the home shack for 6 months because of work. I covered up everything, all disconnect from antennas and power. Now work is back to normal so on my vacation I unpacked the K3, P3, and KAT500 and began hooking all up again--the only difference from before is that I improved the ground system. The K3 worked Ok except somehow there were a bunch of errors of modules not working that were not even installed (?), but that was easily fixed and I updated the firmware. All good. Same with the P3. However, the KAT500 does not respond to the utility and is locked on ant. 1. It does seem to tune, but something is wrong. I checked with a spare KUSB, but no luck there. I checked cables, etc., and all seems Ok, so I thought best to ask before trying anything else. Any ideas where to start? Thanks and 73 for now. Scott. AA0AA, XE1/AA0AA Sent from Scott's iPad __ 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 mike.flow...@gmail.com __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] My KAT500 is sick :(
Hi Scott, The first thing I would do is make sure the PC cable did not get plugged into the TUNE port rather than the PC DATA port. I would also disconnect the 15-pin connector from the K3 and try communicating with the utility. This would rule out any possibility of something with the K3 or accessory cable causing problems. 73 Mike - KI0HA On 7/30/2015 8:18 PM, Scott via Elecraft wrote: I was afraid of that. I am in the shack now to try it again, but it is the same. I live where it is dry so I haven't open it yet to check for something loose or corroded. I was hoping for some magic solution from here first! Do you think it is worthwhile to try that (the ham way!) first before calling? I built so am not afraid of that, but wanted to look for advice first. Scott Sent from my iPhone __ 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
