Also, many people forget that the KAT500 works on RX as well as TX and provides a band-pass filter which changes position across tuning segments. If you’re using the KAT500 without the Aux cable and the main TX antenna for RX, as soon as you tune the RX away from the current tuned segment, the RX path is no longer at optimum.
73, Alan - G4GNX South Coast UK Elecraft K4D / KPA500 / KAT500 / IC-9700 > On 14 Nov 2023, at 02:52, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a KPA-1500, and followed the manual's instruction to run an Aux cable > between my K-3's ACC jack (on the KIO3B) and the KPA-1500. I prefer to have > the band changing already accomplished before I go key down, even for just a > dit. > > 73, Pete N4ZR > ______________________________________________________________ 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