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Jim Brown-10

KRC2 Setup

I've been loaned a W3NQN bandpass filter setup that uses an Array
Solutions FM6 switch box controlled by a KRC2 connected to the Aux Bus
of my K3. Everything seems to work fine on 160-10M, with those bands for
which there are no filters being bypassed, but 6M doesn't get through
the switching network. There's a KRC2 config utility that I've
downloaded and installed, and it fails to show any options for 6M other
than for analog voltage band-decoding. It does tell me that I have the
latest version of the KRC2 firmware installed.

Documentation on using the KRC2 and the config utility is something that
only the programmer's mother could love. It refers to maps, but doesn't
tell me how to set up those maps to cover 6M. Can anyone help me get
this running by some means other than adding switches to bypass the
switching matrix entirely?

Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC
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n7ws

Re: KRC2 Setup

Jim,

I have one of these although it's not part of my station and I've pretty much (thankfully) forgotten the tribulations of getting it configured.

I believe the latest firmware on the website is v1.5.

I have v 1.6 sent to me as a text file. As I recall it fixed something or the other that was a bug in the earlier version.

As you say, it would take an exceptionally loving mother to love this.

If you want this file, I'll sent it via email for you to try. No warranty expressed or implied.

Wes

--- On Sun, 5/22/11, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:

> From: Jim Brown <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Elecraft] KRC2 Setup
> To: "Reflector Elecraft" <[hidden email]>
> Date: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 12:48 PM
> I've been loaned a W3NQN bandpass
> filter setup that uses an Array
> Solutions FM6 switch box controlled by a KRC2 connected to
> the Aux Bus
> of my K3. Everything seems to work fine on 160-10M, with
> those bands for
> which there are no filters being bypassed, but 6M doesn't
> get through
> the switching network. There's a KRC2 config utility
> that I've
> downloaded and installed, and it fails to show any options
> for 6M other
> than for analog voltage band-decoding. It does tell
> me that I have the
> latest version of the KRC2 firmware installed.
>
> Documentation on using the KRC2 and the config utility is
> something that
> only the programmer's mother could love. It refers to maps,
> but doesn't
> tell me how to set up those maps to cover 6M. Can anyone
> help me get
> this running by some means other than adding switches to
> bypass the
> switching matrix entirely?
>
> Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC
> _____________________________

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Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2

Re: KRC2 Setup

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There's a setting in the K3 that optionally maps the 6m band to 10m.
If that setting is enabled, you'll be trying to pass 6m through your
10m BPF, which probably won't work well :) Go to CONFIG:KRC2 and tap
the '1' button until you see "bnd6=b6"

73,

~iain / N6ML

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I've been loaned a W3NQN bandpass filter setup that uses an Array
> Solutions FM6 switch box controlled by a KRC2 connected to the Aux Bus
> of my K3. Everything seems to work fine on 160-10M, with those bands for
> which there are no filters being bypassed, but 6M doesn't get through
> the switching network. There's a KRC2 config utility that I've
> downloaded and installed, and it fails to show any options for 6M other
> than for analog voltage band-decoding. It does tell me that I have the
> latest version of the KRC2 firmware installed.
>
> Documentation on using the KRC2 and the config utility is something that
> only the programmer's mother could love. It refers to maps, but doesn't
> tell me how to set up those maps to cover 6M. Can anyone help me get
> this running by some means other than adding switches to bypass the
> switching matrix entirely?
>
> Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC
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Brendan Minish

Re: KRC2 Setup

Yes this will get 6m sent on AUXBUS, BUT the KRC2 (at least the 2 I had
here) won't decode 6m to a relay driver

this REALLY is over-due fixing..

On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 19:38 +0000, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:

> There's a setting in the K3 that optionally maps the 6m band to 10m.
> If that setting is enabled, you'll be trying to pass 6m through your
> 10m BPF, which probably won't work well :) Go to CONFIG:KRC2 and tap
> the '1' button until you see "bnd6=b6"
>
> 73,
>
> ~iain / N6ML
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I've been loaned a W3NQN bandpass filter setup that uses an Array
> > Solutions FM6 switch box controlled by a KRC2 connected to the Aux Bus
> > of my K3. Everything seems to work fine on 160-10M, with those bands for
> > which there are no filters being bypassed, but 6M doesn't get through
> > the switching network. There's a KRC2 config utility that I've
> > downloaded and installed, and it fails to show any options for 6M other
> > than for analog voltage band-decoding. It does tell me that I have the
> > latest version of the KRC2 firmware installed.
> >
> > Documentation on using the KRC2 and the config utility is something that
> > only the programmer's mother could love. It refers to maps, but doesn't
> > tell me how to set up those maps to cover 6M. Can anyone help me get
> > this running by some means other than adding switches to bypass the
> > switching matrix entirely?
> >
> > Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC
> > ______________________________________________________________
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Brendan EI6IZ

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Jim Brown-10

Re: KRC2 Setup

In reply to this post by Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2

Thanks Iain. You would think that would be in the doc for the KRC2.
Now that you mentioned it, I see it in the K3 doc, but ONLY in the Menu
table.

73, Jim K9YC

On 5/22/2011 12:38 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:

> There's a setting in the K3 that optionally maps the 6m band to 10m.
> If that setting is enabled, you'll be trying to pass 6m through your
> 10m BPF, which probably won't work well :) Go to CONFIG:KRC2 and tap
> the '1' button until you see "bnd6=b6"
>
> 73,
>
> ~iain / N6ML
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jim Brown<[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I've been loaned a W3NQN bandpass filter setup that uses an Array
>> Solutions FM6 switch box controlled by a KRC2 connected to the Aux Bus
>> of my K3. Everything seems to work fine on 160-10M, with those bands for
>> which there are no filters being bypassed, but 6M doesn't get through
>> the switching network. There's a KRC2 config utility that I've
>> downloaded and installed, and it fails to show any options for 6M other
>> than for analog voltage band-decoding. It does tell me that I have the
>> latest version of the KRC2 firmware installed.
>>
>> Documentation on using the KRC2 and the config utility is something that
>> only the programmer's mother could love. It refers to maps, but doesn't
>> tell me how to set up those maps to cover 6M. Can anyone help me get
>> this running by some means other than adding switches to bypass the
>> switching matrix entirely?
>>
>> Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC
>> ______________________________________________________________
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N5GE

Re: KRC2 Setup

That's why I have my 6m antenna on it's own coax attached to Antenna 2.

73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE

On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:05:10 -0700, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:

>Thanks Iain. You would think that would be in the doc for the KRC2.
>Now that you mentioned it, I see it in the K3 doc, but ONLY in the Menu
>table.
>
>73, Jim K9YC
>
>On 5/22/2011 12:38 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
>> There's a setting in the K3 that optionally maps the 6m band to 10m.
>> If that setting is enabled, you'll be trying to pass 6m through your
>> 10m BPF, which probably won't work well :) Go to CONFIG:KRC2 and tap
>> the '1' button until you see "bnd6=b6"
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> ~iain / N6ML
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jim Brown<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> I've been loaned a W3NQN bandpass filter setup that uses an Array
>>> Solutions FM6 switch box controlled by a KRC2 connected to the Aux Bus
>>> of my K3. Everything seems to work fine on 160-10M, with those bands for
>>> which there are no filters being bypassed, but 6M doesn't get through
>>> the switching network. There's a KRC2 config utility that I've
>>> downloaded and installed, and it fails to show any options for 6M other
>>> than for analog voltage band-decoding. It does tell me that I have the
>>> latest version of the KRC2 firmware installed.
>>>
>>> Documentation on using the KRC2 and the config utility is something that
>>> only the programmer's mother could love. It refers to maps, but doesn't
>>> tell me how to set up those maps to cover 6M. Can anyone help me get
>>> this running by some means other than adding switches to bypass the
>>> switching matrix entirely?
>>>
>>> Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC
>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>> Elecraft mailing list
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Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2

Re: KRC2 Setup

In reply to this post by Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2

That may be more a property of the configuration utility than the KRC2
itself? I have a Mac config utility (which I probably got directly
from W6FB) that does have a place for mapping the 6m band to any of
the driver outputs, although I haven't actually tried to use it...

~iain / N6ML

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Brendan Minish <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Yes this will get 6m sent on AUXBUS, BUT the KRC2 (at least the 2 I had
> here) won't decode 6m to a relay driver
>
> this REALLY is over-due fixing..
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 19:38 +0000, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
>> There's a setting in the K3 that optionally maps the 6m band to 10m.
>> If that setting is enabled, you'll be trying to pass 6m through your
>> 10m BPF, which probably won't work well :) Go to CONFIG:KRC2 and tap
>> the '1' button until you see "bnd6=b6"
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> ~iain / N6ML
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> > I've been loaned a W3NQN bandpass filter setup that uses an Array
>> > Solutions FM6 switch box controlled by a KRC2 connected to the Aux Bus
>> > of my K3. Everything seems to work fine on 160-10M, with those bands for
>> > which there are no filters being bypassed, but 6M doesn't get through
>> > the switching network. There's a KRC2 config utility that I've
>> > downloaded and installed, and it fails to show any options for 6M other
>> > than for analog voltage band-decoding. It does tell me that I have the
>> > latest version of the KRC2 firmware installed.
>> >
>> > Documentation on using the KRC2 and the config utility is something that
>> > only the programmer's mother could love. It refers to maps, but doesn't
>> > tell me how to set up those maps to cover 6M. Can anyone help me get
>> > this running by some means other than adding switches to bypass the
>> > switching matrix entirely?
>> >
>> > Thanks and 73, Jim K9YC
>> > ______________________________________________________________
>> > Elecraft mailing list
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