[Elecraft] KPA500 (another view)

[KD3RF]

Hi All:

Alan's reply makes the most sense of all.

For the casual DXer / casual contester, speed and frequency agility can make
as big of a difference as having brute force behind your signal.

Consider the example of being able to quickly change bands to follow a
multiplier or rare DX station and make the QSO *before* the rest of the mob
starts calling.  

That's the true advantage that a KPA500 / KAT 500 gives you versus full
legal limit.  

No tuning, fast QSY, affordable cost.

Sometimes being a 500 watt "rabbit" versus a 1500 watt tortoise gets you to
the finish line faster and with a lot less effort and a lot less expense.

And I also agree with one of Wayne's comments to this thread.

Even though I own a KPA 500, some of the most exciting contacts I have made
have been at 500 milliwatts into Europe when I dial-down my K3 to milliwatt
levels.

In fact, I have even made successful SAB QSOs into Europe at 100 milliwatts
from the East Coast of the US by first calling on "high power" (5 watts) and
then asking the station on the other end if they could continue to hear me
as I reduced power to milliwatt power levels.

I'm not a QRP fanatic but as Wayne says, give it a try.  

It will be really interesting to hear all the low power QSOs when the KX3s
get on the air!.

-- Andy, KD3RF / VE2DXY

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