[Elecraft] KPA800/1500 count me IN...

[Paul Gates]

I have a K1 for CW and a Icom 706 for SSB. I live in an apt above a church I 
pastored for 9 years before I retired. Antenna wise I have a G5RV from 
TenTec and a Gap Challenger Vertical. The ground below the antennas was all 
swamp and it was filled in in the 50s and am not sure it gives me any 
advantage. With the 100 watts from the 706 I work anything I hear. 
Frequently the reports I get are 15-20 DB over S9. Perhaps if my only goal 
in life was to work contests I would trick myself into thinking I needed an 
Amp. <g> I have had amps through out the 45 years I have been a ham but I 
always come to the conclusion eventually that I don't need it. I have not 
always lived in an apt... I once had a 70ft tower with a 3-element beam and 
a 2 meter beam at 80 feet.
Pearly
Paul Gates
Elecraft K1 #231
kd3jf at hotmail.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill NY9H" <ny9h at arrl.net>
To: "Earl W Cunningham" <k6se at juno.com>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA800/1500 count me IN...


> GOOD ENOUGH TO SEE AGAIN :
>
> Earl W Cunningham wrote:
> "If you're not in the market for such an amplifier, don't flame the
> speculated price"
>
> right on EARL.....
>
> BILL   ny9h.....
>
>
> might be more fun ( & productive)  to speculate on the output devices....
>
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