[Elecraft] Here is the real nitty-gritty on how the KAT500 works

2020-03-19 Thread Andy Durbin
"> Each “bin” has room for 6 ATU settings. Each of these 6 ATU settings  > contains bits for the ATU relays (L, C, side, ATU bypass and ANT relays) > plus an SWR measured when the ATU was bypassed. The antenna number (ANT > relay bit settings) is included in the ATU setting, so we don’t need

Re: [Elecraft] Here is the real nitty-gritty on how the KAT500 works

2020-03-11 Thread Christopher Hoover
Thanks for this! I wrote some code to tell my radio and the KAT500 to walk over the bins and my antennas and essentially "push" autotune. It worked OK but not great and I think I see why now. This is a simple scheme and simple is good.. I'm not sure how much flash or EEPROM is available [1].

[Elecraft] Here is the real nitty-gritty on how the KAT500 works

2020-03-08 Thread w1ie
GA All, Around last December, I posed the question on how does the KAT500 actually works. This is the answer I received from Dick at Elecraft, the person who designed the software for the KAT500. Most likely he probably wrote it too. There was, however, a request from Eric, Elecraft CEO,