[Elecraft] KPA-1500 design

[WILLIS COOKE]

Would you go for it if Elecraft just bought some Alphas with no paint and painted on the Big E and added 2 grand for the effort?
 
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart


________________________________
 From: Greg <n4cc at cableone.net>
To: 'Elecraft' <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA-1500 design
 
And now just think how great it would be if Elecraft technology were applied
to a 1500 watt brick on the key amplifier...Actually with an "instant on"
tube -- would be great!  How about bringing back the old vapor cooled
amplifier with auto tune...Wow...  73 de Greg-N4CC

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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of n5ge at n5ge.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:01 AM
To: Gary Gregory
Cc: Elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA-1500 design


Amen,

Gary;  I have an Alpha 87A, and since I got the KPA500 it has set dormant on
the shelf.  The 87A is fully automatic as is the KPA500, but the KPA500
changes bands faster and has no warm up or detectable tune time.  I can't
count how many DX stations I missed waiting for it to do the three minute
warm up.

Don't get me wrong.  The 87A is a great amp, but it can't match the warm up
and band change speed of the KPA500. 

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:25:22 +1000, Gary Gregory <garyvk4fd at gmail.com>
wrote:

[snip]
>The KPA-500 is a genuine 500W amplifier and I have found it great to 
>use with a 4 element yagi. Expecting to work the EU with a G5RV and 
>1500W is about as silly an idea as trying the KPA-500 into a 1/4 wave
mobile whip.
>Yes there are conditions where everything works, but not often.
>
[snip]
>JM2CW
>
>Gary
>*

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