Re: KPA500 installtion with ICOM 7300

Posted by Don Wilhelm on May 10, 2018; 2:20pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KPA500-installtion-with-ICOM-7300-tp7640744p7640745.html

John,

The amp is bypassed if the KAT500 needs do do any tuning or switching,
so I suspect the amp will not fault.

That is why you run the keying line first to the KAT500 and then from
the KAT500 to the KPA500, so the tuner can disable the amp.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 5/10/2018 9:31 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
> I concur that the RF sense works very well, at least it does with an
> external antenna switch and reasonably good antenna SWR.  I am not sure
> what happens if you also use the KAT500 as an antenna switch or your
> untuned SWR is very bad.  Does the amp fault during this first dit?
>
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