[Elecraft] KPA500 update?

[Vic K2VCO]

Ah, who needs that stuff? I just had my first QSO on my new homebrew amplifier: 900 watts 
out from a pair of class-C 813's! Instant on and full QSK. Of course it has separate grid 
and plate bandswitches and three tuning controls to adjust, one of which is a multiturn 
vacuum capacitor, but it's imposing as all get out with four analog meters (2 of which are 
super-cool Western Electric center-adjust types).

On 12/12/2010 9:29 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 12/12/2010 4:55 PM, Leigh L. Klotz Jr WA5ZNU wrote:
>> I saw a KPA500 at a local club meeting recently where Eric WA6HHQ was proudly
>> showing it off.
>> They do indeed seem to be treating it as a serious product on the way.
>> The slides has the obligatory "not yet type accepted" warning of course.
>
> It's definitely well on the way to completion. Several members of local
> clubs work for Elecraft as part of the engineering team, and are busily
> doing the final work to get it in production.  Things like quantity
> shipments of the needed parts, training the crew to build it, FCC type
> acceptance testing, etc.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC

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Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
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