[Elecraft] KPA-500 Features and Pricing

Phil Townsend philji at mac.com
Thu Sep 9 10:46:29 EDT 2010


Ewww, Jack You are soo mean... "Stupid Yuppies"... Come on Jack, why so angry at a great USA company that ACTUALLY builds some great products?

Phil 
Santa Fe

>  It looks like Elecraft may be abandoning their traditional "most bang 
> for the buck" market position in favor of selling over priced "matching 
> accessories" to stupid yuppies.
> 
> Unlike the K3, a $2000  500W amp is not going to be in the "best value" 
> position in anyone's analysis, although I'm sure they will sell a few  
> to the "true believers".
> 
> Currently, used  prices for ALS-600's run $800 to $900 and ALS-1300's 
> are showing up for sale at $1800 to $2000.
> 
> In my case, there is a finite amount of money available for radio 
> station enhancements.  When I can buy a solid state MFJ for ~$1.50/watt 
> or an older no-tune ETO Alpha for ~$1.00/watt, a $4.00/watt Amp that's 
> principal virtue seems to be matching my K3, doesn't have a snow balls 
> chance in Hades of ever gracing my desk.
> 
> But maybe the rumored ridiculous price point is just a smoke screen and 
> the real product will show up with a more palatible price.
> 
> 73 Jack KZ5A
> K3 #4165
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/8/2010 2:12 PM, K4SC wrote:
>> After 45 years on the air, I'm finally getting an itch to bump my power over
>> 100 watts; 500 - 600 watts seems like a reasonable amount of 75 meter power
>> for me.  I'm seriously looking at amplifiers and tuners, but hesitant to
>> make a purchase decision before getting at least some warm fuzzies about the
>> KPA-500 pricing and availability.
>> 
>> Been looking at a lot of new and used tube based amplifiers and 1KW tuners;
>> getting the sense that I could spend upwards of $1500 for anything decent.
>> If the KPA-500 is going to sell for close to that figure, or less of course,
>> I can probably keep my money stashed and wait a few more months.  It sure
>> would look nice next to the K3&  P3.
>> 
>> If, however, the KPA-500 is going to cost much more than $1500, I will
>> probably go the tube route.
>> 
>> So, what I'm hoping to get from someone "in the know" is a ballpark figure
>> on the KPA-500.  I assume the antenna tuner is built in, and not an
>> additional cost.  If that isn't the case, then knowing the ATU cost would
>> also be helpful.
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html



More information about the Elecraft mailing list