[Elecraft] Small HF amp suggestions

Wayne Burdick n6kr at elecraft.com
Sun Nov 11 23:22:48 EST 2012


The KXPA100 amp will be full QSK, using silent PIN-diode keying. 

73,
Wayne
N6KR

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On Nov 11, 2012, at 6:30 PM, "Dyarnes" <w7aqk at cox.net> wrote:

> Hi Again All,
> 
> I was just informed by private email that the Ten-Tec 418 amp will NOT do 
> QSK!  That astounds me!  I just assumed it did I guess.  I'm no designer, 
> but I didn't think QSK was all that hard to incorporate--especially in an 
> amp that seems to be priced in the "full feature" price range.  I even added 
> the QSK mod to an ALS-600 amp which Phil Salas, AD5X,  came up with.  It 
> made a huge improvement in the amp, and wasn't all that hard to do.  Shame 
> on me for having assumed too much on the Ten-Tec amp.  Heck, I even talked 
> at length with a friend of mine, who was field testing that amp, and never 
> even thought to ask about QSK.  We pretty much got sidetracked, I guess, 
> talking about a lot of the other aspects of the amp.  Anyway, I went to the 
> Ten-Tec website, looked at the spec's on the amp, and sure enough--not a 
> word about QSK.  My bad!  Sorry if I mislead folks.  Hopefully I'm not wrong 
> about the Elecraft amp being QSK.  That would really make me bite my tongue!
> 
> Dave W7AQK 
> 
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