I was afraid of that. I am in the shack now to try it again, but it is the same. I live where it is dry so I haven't open it yet to check for something loose or corroded. I was hoping for some magic solution from here first!
Do you think it is worthwhile to try that (the ham way!) first before calling? I built so am not afraid of that, but wanted to look for advice first. Scott Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2015, at 19:54, Mike Flowers <mike.flow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > The KAT500 is pretty resilient, so if it's not responding to the utility > after a power cycle, then time to call Elecraft support. > > - 73 and good DX de Mike, K6MKF, President - NCDXC > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Scott > via Elecraft > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 4:10 PM > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: [Elecraft] My KAT500 is sick :( > > Time to ask for advice... > > I have off the air at the home shack for 6 months because of work. I > covered up everything, all disconnect from antennas and power. Now work is > back to normal so on my vacation I unpacked the K3, P3, and KAT500 and began > hooking all up again--the only difference from before is that I improved the > ground system. > > The K3 worked Ok except somehow there were a bunch of errors of modules not > working that were not even installed (?), but that was easily fixed and I > updated the firmware. All good. Same with the P3. > > However, the KAT500 does not respond to the utility and is locked on ant. 1. > It does seem to tune, but something is wrong. I checked with a spare KUSB, > but no luck there. I checked cables, etc., and all seems Ok, so I thought > best to ask before trying anything else. > > Any ideas where to start? > > Thanks and 73 for now. > Scott. AA0AA, XE1/AA0AA > > Sent from Scott's iPad > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 mike.flow...@gmail.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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
