KAT500 Firmware Problem

[Irwin KD3TB]

From: KD3TB [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 6:07 PM
To: 'Elecraft Reflector'
Subject: KAT500 Firmware Problem

 

I had a problem when I installed the latest version of KAT500 Software
(1.67) and not sure what happened?

 

I had been operating for a few hours on RTTY and CW with my K3, KPA500 and
KAT500 with the previous version of the KAT500 Firmware (1.63). After a
while, I checked for new versions of firmware on the Elecraft site and
downloaded the latest version of KAT500 Firmware (1.67) and installed. I
also installed the latest version of K3 and P3 Firmware.   At this point I
could no longer find a tune point and even on Bypass was getting a high SWR?
This was happening on antenna's that have a low (1:1.2) SWR. I then
reinstalled the previous version 1.63. Disconnected all power to the KAT500
, after a few minutes,  reconnected power to the KAT500 and turned the power
back on.  At this point everything was working fine..no problems.

 

I am not sure what happened? Firmware did not install properly?

 

Any suggestions?

 

Irwin Darack - KD3TB

 

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[Irwin KD3TB]

Dick,

That's exactly what happened....after a lot of detective work, I determined
that my Ameriton remote switch is being flakey. It started to act up in the
RTTY contest. After the CQWW RTTY contest, I am going to take it apart and
check out what is happening......

So at least I know my KAT500 is working fine.

Thanks, Irwin

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Dievendorff [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 9:34 AM
To: 'KD3TB'
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] KAT500 Firmware Problem

High SWR in ATU bypass and unable to find a match to a close-to-resonant
antenna suggests that perhaps the ATU is trying to tune with the wrong
antenna connector?

73 de Dick, K6KR


-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of KD3TB
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 7:38 PM
To: 'Elecraft Reflector'
Subject: [Elecraft] KAT500 Firmware Problem

From: KD3TB [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 6:07 PM
To: 'Elecraft Reflector'
Subject: KAT500 Firmware Problem

 

I had a problem when I installed the latest version of KAT500 Software
(1.67) and not sure what happened?

 

I had been operating for a few hours on RTTY and CW with my K3, KPA500 and
KAT500 with the previous version of the KAT500 Firmware (1.63). After a
while, I checked for new versions of firmware on the Elecraft site and
downloaded the latest version of KAT500 Firmware (1.67) and installed. I
also installed the latest version of K3 and P3 Firmware.   At this point I
could no longer find a tune point and even on Bypass was getting a high SWR?
This was happening on antenna's that have a low (1:1.2) SWR. I then
reinstalled the previous version 1.63. Disconnected all power to the KAT500
, after a few minutes,  reconnected power to the KAT500 and turned the power
back on.  At this point everything was working fine..no problems.

 

I am not sure what happened? Firmware did not install properly?

 

Any suggestions?

 

Irwin Darack - KD3TB

 

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