"The short answer is that neither the KPA500 or KAT500 can source signals - they can only read them from a transceiver and then follow its direction. This means that they can both read the status information from a Kenwood's COM port and act on it."
Now I'm getting confused. Based on earlier replies (list and off list) I understood that the KPA500 was the source of the single wire Aux bus and that both the KPA500 and KAT500 were listeners for the band discretes. How would the KAT500 receive frequency data from the Kenwood COM port? The KPA500 can be configured to do that, and mine is, but I see no way for the KAT500 to do that. There is no RS-232 transceiver port on the KAT500 and the RS-232 PC port appears to be usable only to exchange the KAT500 command set with a device that communicates using that command set. In my case the KAT500 PC port will be used to communicate with my station data logger. Perhaps its only of academic interest but I do like to have some understanding of the equipment I operate. 73, Andy k3wyc ______________________________________________________________ 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
