[Elecraft] KPA-500 Features and Pricing

[Jack Brabham]

  Phil,

No anger with Elecraft, they are my favorite ham company, and I'm quite 
proud of my K3 even if it did take months of research and hair pulling 
to figure out how to get a decent output from it on SSB.

I am concerned, based on the KPA500 rumors, that Elecraft may be 
deliberately pricing themselves out of the average ham's range.  The 
"Oh, it cost so much to produce a product in the USA!" argument doesn't 
hold water either.   Where do you suppose MFJ's are made?  Or for that 
matter the K3?

I'm thinking that if them old southern boys at MFJ can make a /decent 
/amp for around $2/watt, the folks at Elecraft "ought" to be able to 
make a /great /amp for about the same money.  They definitely smoked 
Yaesu and Icom on value postion with the K3.

FWIW "Stupid Yuppies", in my book,  would be those folks who are willing 
to pay twice what something is actually worth just for a label, or for 
the joy of owning the most expensive.

73 Jack KZ5A

K3 #4165





On 9/9/2010 9:46 AM, Phil Townsend wrote:
> 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?
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> Phil
> Santa Fe
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