KAT500 Locked on Ant 1

[richard L gilley]

Looking for thoughts on my KAT500 that remains locked on Ant 1, cannot change to ant 2, manually or via the Elecraft utility regardless of the mode setting,   Set configuration to a later set up still no joy.  And of course does not tune, no relay actions, no caps set or inductors shown in utility.
I am not aware of any electrical storms in the area.

Appreciate hearing from anyone who has an idea.

Thank you all.
AD1G
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[Dick Dievendorff-4]

One of your antennas might be disabled.

Check the KAT500 Utility, Configuration, Edit Configuration, Antennas tab.
Perhaps the "Enabled" checkbox is off for ANT2.  This is a per-band setting.

73 de Dick, K6KR


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Subject: [Elecraft] KAT500 Locked on Ant 1

Looking for thoughts on my KAT500 that remains locked on Ant 1, cannot
change to ant 2, manually or via the Elecraft utility regardless of the mode
setting,   Set configuration to a later set up still no joy.  And of course
does not tune, no relay actions, no caps set or inductors shown in utility.
I am not aware of any electrical storms in the area.

Appreciate hearing from anyone who has an idea.

Thank you all.
AD1G
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[richard L gilley]

Hi,
        Thank you Dick K6KR, and  Skip NC90 for your help.  I ended up doing a factory default, enabled the ant per band and all is well.  
One question:  After setting the configuration, saving, shutting down, and powering up I found in checking "edit  configuration" ant 1 and 3 were no longer enabled.  However, all worked as expected. Should the latest configuration show the antennas enabled?  Perhaps not?

Thank you again, saving me a ship to CA.

Very Best regards
Dick AD1G

> On Apr 29, 2021, at 20:23, richard gilley <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Looking for thoughts on my KAT500 that remains locked on Ant 1, cannot change to ant 2, manually or via the Elecraft utility regardless of the mode setting,   Set configuration to a later set up still no joy.  And of course does not tune, no relay actions, no caps set or inductors shown in utility.
> I am not aware of any electrical storms in the area.
>
> Appreciate hearing from anyone who has an idea.
>
> Thank you all.
> AD1G

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[ANDY DURBIN]

It may not be related to your problem but there is a documented issue with enabled antennas not being selectable in BPY mode.   Elecraft is aware of this issue.  Because of this problem I never use BYP mode.  I use BYP state in MAN mode which is electrically equivalent.

Andy, k3wyc
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