Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 REMOTE POWER CONTROL

2020-10-13 Thread DAVID INGEBRIGHT
Bob, That is a great plugnplay line of boxes you make!. Commendations to you for your inventiveness and marketing. However, I am not a 'plugnplay' ham and needed to figure out how I could wire something up myself. We talked early on in 2017 when I was first putting together my remote rig system

Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 REMOTE POWER CONTROL

2020-10-12 Thread Bob Wilson, N6TV
KPA500 AUX Pin 12 is GND. AUX Pin 8 is the KPA500 remote power ON/OFF pin. No webswitch is necessary to remotely power the KPA500 on and off, since this can be done quite easily from a button on the K3 itself, using a macro, as described here:

[Elecraft] KPA500 REMOTE POWER CONTROL

2020-10-10 Thread DAVID INGEBRIGHT
HI Gordon-- I run a KPA 500 remotely and have the same problem some times. But there's a big green bar at the bottom of the utility that sez "power on". That should be your first indication. But its hard to know what's going on at the remote site. I use a 'remote rig' setup to run the radio and