I am on the waiting list for my KAT500 -- waiting - waiting - waiting But, in the mean time I am planning for how I want to arrange the switching of my various antennas. I understand the KAT500 has 3 antenna connections so first a couple of questions:
1. Will the automatic features of the tuner include automatic band switching ? That is, if I am operating on my 80 meter dipole and then I switch my K3 to the 20 meter band will my 20-meter Hexbeam automatically be switched in (assuming I have it also connected to the KAT500)? 2. I have four antennas: 80-meter dipole, 40-meter dipole, and 30-meter dipole, plus my Traffie Hexbeam that handles 20 meter through 10 meters. I would like to hook up permanently my 80 meter and the Traffie hexbeam to two of the KAT500 antenna connections and then also switch in the 40-meter dipole and 30-meter dipole into the third antenna connection on the KAT500. So, let's say I am on 40 meters and I switch to 30 meters but I need to also manually switch my 40-meter and 30-meter since they share the same port. Will the KAT500 know how to handle this? [Note: my 30-meter dipole though is 1.3:1 and better across the entire 30-meter band so maybe I don't even need the KAT500]. 3. How do I tell the KAT500 that the five bands (20m thru 10m) are found on one given antenna connection (to my hexbeam)? Or, does the KAT500 learn this or do I manually help it out by some stored assignment. 4. Which brings up my final question: will the KAT500 be a "smart" device with a computer interface like many other Elecraft devices? Is this how I might preset bands to be associated with antenna connections. Note, my 80-meter dipole can actually work well on 40 and 30 but not as well as my 40-meter and 30-meter dipoles. 73, phil, K7PEH ______________________________________________________________ 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
