[Elecraft] KPA800 / KPA1500: status update?

[David Wilburn]

The amps also had to undergo additional re-engineering to become RoHS
compliant.
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David Wilburn
dave.wilburn at verizon.net
K4DGW
K2 S/N 5982


On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 18:04 -0700, Vic K2VCO wrote:
> Nick Waterman wrote:
> 
> > Now I return to the reflector, nearly a year later, the K3 is real (and
> > 4 or 5 people have evidence to suggest it's shipping!), but the
> > KPA800/1500 are still "real soon now"? What's going on?
> 
> The amplifiers were delayed for a time when new FCC regulations came out 
> which permitted operation on 10/12 meters out of the box as long as 
> certain other frequencies were blocked (and I think some other things).
> 
> In my opinion, this meant that the amps and the K3 would be coming at 
> more or less the same time.  Elecraft has limited resources, the K3 is a 
> far more important product, and so the introduction of the amps was 
> delayed again.