[Elecraft] KPA500 Power In Digital Modes

[mcduffie at ag0n.net]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:34:09 -0800, Jim Brown wrote:

> 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.

I'm not a contester, but have done similar with mine with no issue.  The fan
will scream at you as it gets above 70C, but the temp levels out.  I'm not one
to push much beyond that, as that's all the warmer it gets in JT exchanges
running power.  No lectures on low power for JT, I run power depending on
propagation, or lack thereof, mostly on a dead six meter band.

Gary