[Elecraft] External Power Supply for the KPA-500

[Bill Coleman]

On Apr 20, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Lew Phelps K6LMP wrote:

> You can't have it all -- legal limit amp, power supply for same, legal limit ATU,  etc. are incompatible with small size, light weight, and ability to run on 110 VAC mains. you just can't shoehorn a "big gun" station into a briefcase.

Yet.

Seriously. The K2/100 is ten-year-old technology. Yet it has way more functionality for its size and weight than transceivers that are ten or twenty years older. 

With advances in component miniaturization and material science, it will eventually be possible to have a legal limit rig with PS and ATU all in a package the size of the K3. 

Just not yet.

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