[Elecraft] KX3 Amp

W0FK lladerman at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 1 15:36:51 EDT 2013


John Marvin wrote
> One correction. The HF Packer is not a 50w amp. It's about 45w at 160m, 
> and then steadily less as you go up in frequency (40w for 80m, 35w for 
> 40-20m, 30w for 17/15m, 25w for 12m and about 20w for 10m). It doesn't 
> support 6m. These numbers come directly from a graph in the HF Packer 
> manual.
> 
> John
> AC0ZG

I get 44-45 watts out of mine (v3) on all bands with 5 watts input. I've
seen 50 if I push it with 6+ watts input when I was testing it out, but
that's in excess of recommended input limts and given the slim dB gain, not
worth it.

73,

Lou, W0FK



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