[Elecraft] KPA500 update?

[vr2xmc]

No thanks for tube amplifier.  Bad experience from High tension. 

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Vic K2VCO <vic at rakefet.com> 於 2010年12月13日 下午3:14 寫道：

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Vic, K2VCO
> Fresno CA
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