Two things the wiring got wrong, both visible on screen.
A KPA fell through to the PowerGenius branch of the amplifier card and was
drawn as one — titled 'POWERGENIUSXL · ELECRAFT KPA1500', with a
PowerGenius's meters and none of its own. It has a card now: OPERATE, ON
and OFF, band, power, SWR, temperature, supply, and the fault across the
end. The OPERATE button carries a tooltip saying it also clears the fault,
because that is the button an operator already has under the cursor when
they need it.
And the band-follow option was offered on it. That option exists because
an Acom POLLS a transceiver and has no command to be given a band, so
following it needs a second serial port and a rig emulator answering those
polls. The KPA has ^BN — OpsLog simply tells it, on the link it is already
using, and only when the band CHANGES. The option is gone from the KPA and
the telling is automatic.
Also: Acom rather than ACOM everywhere it is read, which is how the
company writes it. Identifiers, package names and log lines are left
alone — renaming those is churn with no reader.
Wired into the multi-amplifier support that already carries the SPE, the
ACOM and the PowerGenius: a fourth brand rather than a fourth mechanism.
The linking, the fan-out and the poll all work on it unchanged.
Three things the KPA does differently, and each is handled where it shows
rather than explained in a hint:
- A KPA500 has no network side at all. Choosing it puts the entry on
serial, and a configuration still asking for TCP is refused with a
line saying so instead of retrying an address that cannot answer.
- The amplifier answers ^ON while its main supplies are OFF — a sleeping
microcontroller stays awake for exactly that — so power-on stays
available over the network, unlike the SPE and ACOM which need their
serial control lines.
- Going to OPERATE clears the current fault, everything except
temperature. The widget says so under the fault, because the button
that fixes it is the one already on screen.
Defaults that leave a working configuration when the model is changed:
38400 baud, TCP port 1500, and a full-scale power mark of 500 or 1500 W
by model — a KPA500 read against a 1500 W scale looks idle at full
output.
- PGXL: remote AUTH password; direct-link meter fallback (VITA-first) with
250 ms poll + peak-hold; fan mode uses bare "fanmode=" (was ignored).
- TCI: spot colour sent as decimal ARGB (ExpertSDR dropped the hex string);
spot click handled via CLICKED_ON_SPOT / RX_CLICKED_ON_SPOT to fill the entry.
- FlexRadio: clicking an OpsLog spot on the panadapter now applies the mode too.
- Filter presets: the trash icon deletes again (Radix pointer-down intercept).
- PTT hotkey: keys over CAT when a backend is active (was hijacked by a stale
Audio-tab RTS/DTR serial setting); AltGr keys allowed; presses logged.
- CW macro <LOGQSO>: logs after the preceding CW is sent, not on the first letter.
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