+1. Wish I never had to touch the buttons or look at the displays on my KPA500 or KAT500 ever.
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Erik Basilier <ebasil...@cox.net> wrote: > Now I have the KPA500 and KAT500 actually up and running for the first > time. > I am very happy with my purchase, and the combo is better integrated than > anything else I have used. > By integrated, I mean the boxes work together well. > The fact that they are separate boxes, that I could purchase at different > times, is a big plus for me. > However, I have to disagree with those that have said that it all works > like > having a 500W transceiver. > Examples: > * Antenna selection now has to be done from the KAT500. I can't do it by > the > ANT button on the K3, so the labels on the antennas defined there are now > useless. > * The Power readout is now on the amp, and the Power knob on the K3 just > shows the drive power. It is certainly valuable to be able to read the > drive > power, but in a 500W transceiver that would be a separate readout, and the > Power adjustment readout would show the final output power. > Again, I am happy, and all is good. > But a future Electraft architecture that is to overshadow the competition > would use a more global approach to settings that reflect the whole system > rather than settings per box, and to achieve this the actual settings in a > box (e.g. antenna selection in the tuner) would be controlled through a > network rather than local panel controls. The controls would all originate > from a controller (or multiple controllers in case of multiple operators > operating independently), which could be dedicated devices a la Maestro, or > PC's (for cheap users), or hardware transceivers such as the K3. Of course, > the K3 would have to get firmware updates that would include more ANT > choices, drive power display mode, selection of classic operation mode > versus global controller mode, etc. > > 73, > Erik K7TV > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 c...@murgatroid.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
