Yesterday I was in communication with SPE regarding their “Application Programmers Guide” document and I thought I’d share some information that was identified.

The same version – Rev 1.1 dated 15.10.2015 – is the latest available for all amplifier models excluding the original 1k-fa. This is somewhat dated, missing some specific content for more recent amplifiers, notably the 1.5k-fa and 1.5k-Taurus but overall remains applicable.

SPE were kind enough to confirm the following:

• That Status message/string, field “ID” may contain one of the following: “13K”, “15K”, “15T” or “20K”. The “T” suffix identifies a Taurus amplifier
• For the 1.5k-fa and 1.5k-Taurus, the ‘Memory Bank’ field can be either “A” or “B”
• For the 1.5k-fa and 1.5k-Taurus, the ‘Tx Antenna and ATU status’ field is as specified for the 1.3k-fa
• That Status message/string field ‘SWR ATU’ is the value measured by sensor SWR 1 and field ‘SWR ANT’ is that measured by sensor SWR 2. Note: The SPE Expert User Manual contains a block diagram that identifies sensors SWR 1 and SWR 2.

Andy