[Elecraft] KPA500 - Full Power Keydown

[Bill]

That is the advantage of having the KPA500 along with the KAT500 - it 
turns your K3 into a 500 Watt XCVR.

Last time that was available was the Swan 500 series and the 
Hallicrafters SR-500 Tornado. The former was an affordable high power 
rig that sometimes developed a serious drifting problem and the latter 
was a really fine rig - produced near the end of that company's 
manufacturing run. Hallicrafters did also build the SR-2000 Hurricane 
(2Kw using 8122 tubes) - another fine rig of that era.

Over the years I owned both of those Hallicrafters rigs and used to wish 
that I had kept one or the other. Now that I have the K-Line, there is 
no need. I have the 500 Watt XCVR and all the advantages that 
microprocessing affords us in the new rigs.

I am not sure that I would buy a KPA2000 or similar, if it was 
available. I find that 500 Watts really does me just fine. 
But............ I am not a DXer or contest op.

Bill W2BLC  K-Line