[Elecraft] Elecraft HF amplifier?

[juergen piezo]

Hi Wayne

Whatever amplifier comes from the Elecraft stable, a useful accessory would be a hybrid combiner to combine 2 or 4 Elecraft amplifiers. This appears to be a favored option  for military HF users.

http://www2.rohde-schwarz.com/en/products/secure_communications/los_radiocommunications/M3SR_series_4100_software_defined_radio/M3SR_Series_4100.html

There will also be several SDR transmitters released very shortly by various people onto the market. All these SDR transmitters will be low power  and less than  1 watt. A low drive option of either 100-300mw, 10 watts, 100 watts or 200 watts maybe with an attenuator input would be nice option. 

It would also be nice to be able to reduce TX power in 3db steps using  an attenuator. This option  could also be used by MARS operators who use Rockwell HF80 or Harris 100 to 300 MW TX drivers especially if low drive is an option.

If the stock K3 at 10 watts could be biased for class A it would make a very good driver for  the above  amplifier.  Can the K3's 10 watt PA handle class A bias? 2 or 3 watts of Class A power would be a nice menu  option.


John



--- On Tue, 11/17/09, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

> From: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft HF amplifier?
> To: "Mark Bayern" <plcmark at gmail.com>
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net, "Conway Yee" <yee at bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 1:28 PM
> For now, I can only say that we're
> deeply interested in this topic.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Mark Bayern wrote:
> 
> > Elecraft has developed and shown QRO amplifiers in the
> past.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Conway Yee <yee at bronze.lcs.mit.edu> 
> 
> > wrote:
> >> Is there a chance that a Elecraft will develop a
> HF amplifier?  Is  
> >> there
> >> another kit manufacturer with such a beast? 
> It would be nice to  
> >> have a
> >> kit station from Alpha to Omega.
> 
> 
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