[Elecraft] 100 Watts or 500 Watts

[Don Wilhelm]

  Bill,

It is not an Elecraft choice.
While you could do that as an individual, commercial products (sold in 
the US) must meet the FCC requirement of a 15 dB maximum gain   That 
limits the maximum power gain to a factor of 31.62 - 10 watts in gives 
316.2 watts (at the most) output.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 12/20/2010 3:23 PM, able2fly at aol.com wrote:
> Why wouldn't Elecraft design the KPA500 to be driven to its rated output by a K3/10 ?
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> Bill  K3UJ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Wilhelm<w3fpr at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 100 Watts or 500 Watts
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>    Frank,
> If you think you want 500 watts out, you will have to install the KPA3
> 100 watts) anyway.  The K3/10 will not be able to drive the KPA500 to
> ull output - you may be able to get somewhere betwen 200 and 300 watts
> ut of it.
> 73,
> on W3FPR
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