[Elecraft] KPA500 Power In Digital Modes

[Jeff Stai]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
wrote:

> On Sun,11/9/2014 2:18 PM, Phil Wheeler wrote:
>
>> How much power out were you running on RTTY with your KPA500? I'm
>> interested because I have the amp, but have not yet used it on digital
>> modes (use the K3 barefoot at 25 W or so).
>>
>
> During KPA500 beta, I was loaned one for a major RTTY contest weekend and
> told to run it "with all the lights lit." I did, and it worked fine. In the
> 3-4 years I've owned one, I regularly run it at full power in digital modes
> on all bands, 160-6M. When it gets warm, the fan speeds up, but it
> continues to put out full power. This includes digital modes like FSK441
> and JT65A on 6M, and lots of RTTY on the HF bands.
>
>
Just to echo what Jim said, we used the KPA500 at W7RN on RTTY for W1AW/7
NV WARC bands at full output, ran as cool as a clam.

73 jeff wk6i

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