Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
On 1/31/2014 12:41 PM, Bill W2BLC wrote: Sure am looking forward to a successful fix for the tuner's problems - then I will be able to use my tuner and amp. Otherwise, I will return to a manual tuner and tube based amplifier. This has not been a pleasant experience. I have to wonder how it is that the internal tuner to the K3 works so well - yet the external 500 Watt tuner does not. Bill W2BLC K-Line () I've asked this several times, not gotten an answer, just continuing complaints: I'm running KAT500 FW Version 1.32 which came with my KAT500 [there are no KAT500 FW files in the location the KAT500 Utility looks for them], so I've never done an FW upload. I have NEVER experienced this problem with my K3-KPA500-KAT500 combo once I took the time to train it on all the band segment-antenna combinations I have [I operate it in MAN mode]. I don't doubt that the problem is real, and I don't doubt that it is very annoying, and we know the smart folk at Elecraft are working on it. But ... Once more ... has anyone reloaded an earlier version of the FW, such as for example, 1.32? If it works for me, it ought to work for everyone, no? OK, admittedly, this involves computers so that's not a foregone conclusion, :-) but it should be worth a try. I follow the "If it's not broke, don't fix it" theory. If new FW implements something that I want or will affect me, I get it. For the record, the K3 is FW version 4.58, I haven't uploaded that in a long time either. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014 - www.cqp.org __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
On 1/31/2014 12:59 PM, XE3/K5ENS wrote: We're also working on a new feature that will allow the K3 to retune the KAT500 automatically, in receive mode, each time the VFO is moved. This feature would be turned on/off in a K3 menu entry (default would be off). By "retune," I mean that the KAT500 would select an LC combination that had been previously stored for the applicable band segment--the same thing that happens when the tuner measures the transmit frequency. *Wayne, So this will only work if you connect to a K3? Keith* Ummm ... I suppose "no," if somebody else's radio will speak properly to the KAT500 on that multi-conductor interface cable. The odds of a non-Elecraft radio doing that are probably lower than the odds I'm pregnant with twins. :-) So, practically, I guess the answer is "yes." 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014 - www.cqp.org __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
I was trying to place a brief focus on the fact that with more power comes the added potential problems caused by rf gremlins I feel that point was/is being ignore by the demand that there be no glitches and if there are any it absolutely must be the designer fault the designing fool proof systems is often defeated by the underestimated ingenuity of fools On 1/31/2014 3:12 PM, Bill W2BLC wrote: "hmmm...let me have a shot at that one 100w vs 500w now I wonder what could be the difference... hello test" Of course there are mechanical differences! However, there should be a similarity of firmware approach. That is why I mentioned it. Bill W2BLC K-Line (???) __ 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 -- GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
"hmmm...let me have a shot at that one 100w vs 500w now I wonder what could be the difference... hello test" Of course there are mechanical differences! However, there should be a similarity of firmware approach. That is why I mentioned it. Bill W2BLC K-Line (???) __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:07:53 -0800, Wayne Burdick wrote: > We're getting excellent reports from several customers who are testing new > KAT500 and KPA500 firmware. (The changes mainly pertain to fault indications > and incorrect re-tuning.) We hope to get this code to beta early next week. Wayne, My KPA/KAT (1061/1255) combo had performed quite well since installing the KAT. I have been quite happy with it. However it did retune on me for an unknown reason the other day. Just to note that fact. Gary - AG0N -- http://ag0n.net 3055: http://ag0n.net/irlp/3055 NodeOp Help Page: http://ag0n.net/irlp __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
We're also working on a new feature that will allow the K3 to retune the KAT500 automatically, in receive mode, each time the VFO is moved. This feature would be turned on/off in a K3 menu entry (default would be off). By "retune," I mean that the KAT500 would select an LC combination that had been previously stored for the applicable band segment--the same thing that happens when the tuner measures the transmit frequency. *Wayne, So this will only work if you connect to a K3? Keith* -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Update-on-KAT500-KPA500-firmware-tweaks-tp7583487p7583518.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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
Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
hmmm...let me have a shot at that one 100w vs 500w now I wonder what could be the difference... hello test On 1/31/2014 2:41 PM, Bill W2BLC wrote: Sure am looking forward to a successful fix for the tuner's problems - then I will be able to use my tuner and amp. Otherwise, I will return to a manual tuner and tube based amplifier. This has not been a pleasant experience. I have to wonder how it is that the internal tuner to the K3 works so well - yet the external 500 Watt tuner does not. Bill W2BLC K-Line () -- GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
Sure am looking forward to a successful fix for the tuner's problems - then I will be able to use my tuner and amp. Otherwise, I will return to a manual tuner and tube based amplifier. This has not been a pleasant experience. I have to wonder how it is that the internal tuner to the K3 works so well - yet the external 500 Watt tuner does not. Bill W2BLC K-Line () __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
Yippie. Can't wait! S&P on bands like 160M is problematic. 73 de Brian/K3KO On 1/31/2014 17:07, Wayne Burdick wrote: We're also working on a new feature that will allow the K3 to retune the KAT500 automatically, in receive mode, each time the VFO is moved. This feature would be turned on/off in a K3 menu entry (default would be off). By "retune," I mean that the KAT500 would select an LC combination that had been previously stored for the applicable band segment--the same thing that happens when the tuner measures the transmit frequency. Wayne N6KR - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3684/6549 - Release Date: 01/31/14 __ 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
[Elecraft] Update on KAT500/KPA500 firmware tweaks
We're getting excellent reports from several customers who are testing new KAT500 and KPA500 firmware. (The changes mainly pertain to fault indications and incorrect re-tuning.) We hope to get this code to beta early next week. We're also working on a new feature that will allow the K3 to retune the KAT500 automatically, in receive mode, each time the VFO is moved. This feature would be turned on/off in a K3 menu entry (default would be off). By "retune," I mean that the KAT500 would select an LC combination that had been previously stored for the applicable band segment--the same thing that happens when the tuner measures the transmit frequency. Wayne N6KR __ 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
