[Elecraft] KPA500 question

[Slava Baytalskiy]

Thanks for all the replies, gentlemen!
Certainly gives me food for thought. 
I do want the kpa500. I love building Elecraft kits. 
One more question: is there a tuner inside that amp? How does it auto-tune? And if so - does that mean that I will have 3 tuners? KAT3, KAT500 and whatever tuner is in the amp?
And also, is KAT500 pretty much a must?

Does anyone know if Elecraft actually has any plans to put out higher powered amp anytime soon?

Slava Baytalskiy
slavka at nullserv.com
W2RMS

On May 7, 2014, at 11:39 AM, "dmb at lightstream.net" <dmb at lightstream.net> wrote:

> Increasing power from:
> 100W to 600W provides 7.8dB gain (1.3 S-units)
> 600W to 1.5KW provides 4 dB gain (0.67 S-unit)
> 
> ... so that first 600W is huge.
> 
> Considering the tight integration w/ the K3 and KAT500, and the fact that
> it also plays nicely w/ other transceivers, I think the KPA500 provides
> great value for the investment.
> 
> 73, Dale
> WA8SRA
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>>> Is there a tremendous difference between legal limit and about half of
>>> it
>> 
>> One third, not a half.  The KPA is 500W.  Legal limit is 1500W.
>> 
>> Gary
>> --
> 
> 
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