On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 9:33 AM Wes <[email protected]> wrote: > This despite the claim: "The KAT500 Automatic Antenna Tuner is designed to > be > closely integrated with the Elecraft K3 transceiver and the Elecraft > KPA500 > amplifier although it may be easily used with other transceivers and > amplifiers." > > The last part is simply not true, IMHO, of course. >
I guess that depends on how you define "easily". Plug and play cables and plus some menu configuration seems pretty easy to me, if you have a Kenwood rig. IMHO, the KAT500 and KPA500 *is* very easy to use with Kenwood radios, with VFO A auto-track, once connected property. It's all well documented in the KAT500 Owner's Manual <https://ftp.elecraft.com/KAT500/Manuals%20Downloads/E740183%20Rev%20D1%20KAT500%20Owner's%20Manual.pdf> (pages 16 - 18), and Elecraft can supply KPA500/KAT500 interface cables for a long list of non-Elecraft transceivers, listed here: https://elecraft.com/products/75-discount-on-a-kpa500-kat500-power-combo The S-BOX <https://bit.ly/S-BOX> can provide plug and play interfaces in more complex environments, when you need even more devices connected to the Kenwood serial port, such as SteppIR controllers and Bandmaster band decoders. Some combinations (Icom, Yaesu) do not provide frequency auto-track with just cables, though Yaesu support should be easy to add to the KAT500 / KPA500 firmware since they've already done the code for the KPA1500. In the meantime, N4PY Pegasus Plus software <http://www.n4py.com/pegasus-plus.html> can transform any supported transceiver's frequency into Kenwood format for the KAT500 as well, plus there are Icom/Yaesu/Kenwood translating hardware solutions available in some microHAM devices such as the MK2R+. 73, Bob, N6TV https://bit.ly/S-BOX ______________________________________________________________ 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]
