[Elecraft] Yet another product idea

[Gary K9GS]

I'll second that!

On 4/9/2011 10:21 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
> Several years ago at the Elecraft stand in Dayton I saw a prototype
> 1500-watt solid state amp.  At the time I understood from the folks
> there (and maybe from some e-mails) that it had been built using some
> high-power transistors made by a company in Oregon (I think) with which
> K4XU is/was associated.
>
> I was told a couple of years ago that the K3 project had superseded the
> amp, because of the much larger potential market.  But now I'm wondering...
>
> To what extent does the KPA-500 share design and/or hardware with that
> prototype?  Might it be feasible to build and sell a 1500-watt amp for
> something approximating three times the cost of the KPA-500?  Now *that*
> would tempt me, even at over twice the cost of an AL-1200, for the fast
> bandswitching and the quiet power.
>

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73,

Gary K9GS

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