Re: [Elecraft] Auto antenna select
Yes, I use my KPA500/KAT500 pair remotely. The driver is a K3, so I don't need RF-sensed band and antenna switching, but it should work fine with a non-K3 driver. I rely mainly on antenna switching external to the KAT, but its three antenna ports are adequate for many stations without the added complexity of external switching. For remote control, I recommend KPA500 Remote and KAT500 Remote, available on the Elecraft Web site. They provide functionally complete and graphically attractive on-screen interfaces. Although they can be used locally at the radio site, they also support a client-server mode in which the server runs at the radio site and the client runs at the control site. That requires a computer at both sites, of course. If you don't believe in having a computer active at the radio site, you can also run them in local mode at the control site only, using remote serial ports at the radio site. Your idea of pre-programming the KAT before operating remotely is a good one. I recommend using MAN mode after that. Relying on AUTO mode makes me nervous, especially when I'm not present to hear the relays clanking. GL 73, /Rick N6XI On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Va3ied scottshepp...@videotron.ca wrote: I recently purchased the kat500and love it. Has anyone programmed their freq and antenna ports and then used it remotely? As I understand it, after sensing rf the unit will switch to the correct antenna and tune it? It does. To require any other connections? 73 Scott -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Auto-antenna-select-tp7596100.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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 rta...@gmail.com -- Rick Tavan N6XI Truckee, CA __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Auto antenna select
I'm guessing the the OP was thinking about remote as in out by the antenna. rather than at some other site. If I'm correct, I've pondered this too, but so far resisted because I don't know how to deal with faults, of which I've had too many. Wes N7WS On 12/19/2014 11:10 AM, Rick Tavan N6XI wrote: Yes, I use my KPA500/KAT500 pair remotely. The driver is a K3, so I don't need RF-sensed band and antenna switching, but it should work fine with a non-K3 driver. I rely mainly on antenna switching external to the KAT, but its three antenna ports are adequate for many stations without the added complexity of external switching. For remote control, I recommend KPA500 Remote and KAT500 Remote, available on the Elecraft Web site. They provide functionally complete and graphically attractive on-screen interfaces. Although they can be used locally at the radio site, they also support a client-server mode in which the server runs at the radio site and the client runs at the control site. That requires a computer at both sites, of course. If you don't believe in having a computer active at the radio site, you can also run them in local mode at the control site only, using remote serial ports at the radio site. Your idea of pre-programming the KAT before operating remotely is a good one. I recommend using MAN mode after that. Relying on AUTO mode makes me nervous, especially when I'm not present to hear the relays clanking. GL 73, /Rick N6XI On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Va3ied scottshepp...@videotron.ca wrote: I recently purchased the kat500and love it. Has anyone programmed their freq and antenna ports and then used it remotely? As I understand it, after sensing rf the unit will switch to the correct antenna and tune it? It does. To require any other connections? 73 Scott __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Auto antenna select
thanks...but what I meant was using it as a remote antenna switch...I have a garden shed at the base of my tower with 3 different coax feeds for the antennas. At the moment I use an ameritron remote switch so only one coax comes to the house...I was thinking the KAT500 could do away with that...it could switch antennas and tune (pre tuned)... scott -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Auto-antenna-select-tp7596100p7596106.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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
[Elecraft] Auto antenna select
I recently purchased the kat500and love it. Has anyone programmed their freq and antenna ports and then used it remotely? As I understand it, after sensing rf the unit will switch to the correct antenna and tune it? It does. To require any other connections? 73 Scott -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Auto-antenna-select-tp7596100.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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
Re: [Elecraft] Auto antenna select
Yes. It's all automatic after training, except I use window line for a feed, it varies with rain. So when remote, I use TeamViewer and the KAT utility to make sure things are tuned. Very simple to manage remotely. 73, Rick wa6nhc Tiny iPhone 5 keypad, typos are inevitable On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:27 PM, Va3ied scottshepp...@videotron.ca wrote: I recently purchased the kat500and love it. Has anyone programmed their freq and antenna ports and then used it remotely? As I understand it, after sensing rf the unit will switch to the correct antenna and tune it? It does. To require any other connections? 73 Scott -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Auto-antenna-select-tp7596100.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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 happymooseph...@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
