My KAT500 is sick :(

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Time to ask for advice...

I have off the air at the home shack for 6 months because of work.  I covered up everything, all disconnect from antennas and power.  Now work is back to normal so on my vacation I unpacked the K3, P3, and KAT500 and began hooking all up again--the only difference from before is that I improved the ground system.  

The K3 worked Ok except somehow there were a bunch of errors of modules not working that were not even installed (?), but that was easily fixed and I updated the firmware.  All good.  Same with the P3.

However, the KAT500 does not respond to the utility and is locked on ant. 1.  It does seem to tune, but something is wrong.  I checked with a spare KUSB, but no luck there.  I checked cables, etc., and all seems Ok, so I thought best to ask before trying anything else.

Any ideas where to start?

Thanks and 73 for now.
Scott. AA0AA, XE1/AA0AA

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I was afraid of that. I am in the shack now to try it again, but it is the same. I live where it is dry so I haven't open it yet to check for something loose or corroded.  I was hoping for some magic solution from here first!

Do you think it is worthwhile to try that (the ham way!) first before calling?  I built so am not afraid of that, but wanted to look for advice first.

Scott

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> On Jul 30, 2015, at 19:54, Mike Flowers <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> The KAT500 is pretty resilient, so if it's not responding to the utility
> after a power cycle, then time to call Elecraft support.
>
> - 73 and good DX de Mike, K6MKF, President - NCDXC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Scott
> via Elecraft
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 4:10 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] My KAT500 is sick :(
>
> Time to ask for advice...
>
> I have off the air at the home shack for 6 months because of work.  I
> covered up everything, all disconnect from antennas and power.  Now work is
> back to normal so on my vacation I unpacked the K3, P3, and KAT500 and began
> hooking all up again--the only difference from before is that I improved the
> ground system.  
>
> The K3 worked Ok except somehow there were a bunch of errors of modules not
> working that were not even installed (?), but that was easily fixed and I
> updated the firmware.  All good.  Same with the P3.
>
> However, the KAT500 does not respond to the utility and is locked on ant. 1.
> It does seem to tune, but something is wrong.  I checked with a spare KUSB,
> but no luck there.  I checked cables, etc., and all seems Ok, so I thought
> best to ask before trying anything else.
>
> Any ideas where to start?
>
> Thanks and 73 for now.
> Scott. AA0AA, XE1/AA0AA
>
> Sent from Scott's iPad
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[Michael Eberle]

Hi Scott,

The first thing I would do is make sure the PC cable did not get plugged
into the TUNE port rather than the PC DATA port.  I would also
disconnect the 15-pin connector from the K3 and try communicating with
the utility.  This would rule out any possibility of something with the
K3 or accessory cable causing problems.

73
Mike - KI0HA


On 7/30/2015 8:18 PM, Scott via Elecraft wrote:
> I was afraid of that. I am in the shack now to try it again, but it is the same. I live where it is dry so I haven't open it yet to check for something loose or corroded.  I was hoping for some magic solution from here first!
>
> Do you think it is worthwhile to try that (the ham way!) first before calling?  I built so am not afraid of that, but wanted to look for advice first.
>
> Scott
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>

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