[Elecraft] Considering a KPA

[greenacres113 at charter.net]

	I've had one 3 yr.s now. I have never run over 700w in my 55 yr.s of
haming and never thought I needed twice the power output.I run mine at
500w. On 30m I have it set at 200w. I don't have big antennas. I use a
3 el tribander, several homebrew 2 el WARC yagis, a Moxon on 30m & a
Hytower. None are over 55' high. 

	I am primarly a DXer but do contest a bit. My experience is just what
it is. No reams of data or tech. theories. Being in the middle of the
US I would think I'm average. I have a pretty gud DXCC total of 360
confirmed & 9xDXCC and just 5 short of DXCC on 6m. 

	It works flawlessly with my K3 & KAT500.I'm no tech. guy for sure but
everything is so straight forward even I can use it. I think one of
the best advantages of the K line for a DXer is the speed to bring
everything up & going in mere seconds. I see something to chase on the
cluster & in 15 seconds I'm there ready to go with 500w. If I ran a
tube amp with warm up time I'd be hearing a bunch on Elecraft guys
calling as I waited for the warm up light to go out. Working rare DX
is timing a lot of the time. I want to be in faster not later.

	I wouldn't have nearly the DX on 6m without the KPA. Again just my
experience.

	K9IL