[Elecraft] Endless Amplifier Posts

[Mike Rhodes]

...is it my imagination or are a number of Elecraft customers anal 
retentive when it comes to an Elecraft amplifier that does not and may 
not ever exist ??

Mike / W8DN

On 8/3/2016 1:31 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> I know it's the political season, so there's a lot of this going 
> around, but the plain truth is just a bunch of bafflegab.
>
> On 8/2/2016 11:27 AM, Morgan Bailey wrote:
>> Back to the endless amp forum posts.
>>
>> *The Plain Truth*
>>
>> Better antennas = better communication.
>> Transmit antennas are not always be best antennas for reception.
>> Propagation determines communications.
>>
>> Power has little to do with propagation when it is in your favor.
>>
>> If you cant hear them you cant work them. And even then, if you can hear
>> them many times, propagation is not 2 way.
>>
>> Having a 1500 watt signal on the air has nothing to do with being 
>> able to
>> hear who is hearing you. Otherwise, your just QRM. Alligator syndrome.
>>
>> RFI from 1500 watts, Near Field interference, Electrical energy cost are
>> all added problems of excessive power.
>>
>> Water soaked Coax with poor antenna installation with negative 12 db
>> loss takes 1500 watts to 100 watts on a 100 ft run, using, 100 watts 
>> going
>> down to 1/2 watt, you can still talk because: QRP works!
>>
>> A 1500 watt amplifier is not going to make you a better operator.
>> Many amps today that are being produced over seas have tetrode finals 
>> that
>> will put out 2500 watts easily, check your coax at the frequency that 
>> you
>> want to run and you may be in for a surprise. If you swr is greater than
>> near unity, you may have problems with the reflected power melting 
>> down the
>> foam by heat and creating more loss. With an amp you have to have 
>> resonant
>> antennas, you don't want RF in the shack. And at that power level 
>> antenna
>> tuners become a very effective Ozone generator, keeps you shack smelling
>> nice and fresh but it does not do much for your finals and spark gap was
>> outlawed quite some time back.
>>
>> I have a 1.2 kw amp and run it at 450 to 500 watts, why, because it 
>> puts me
>> in a contest class that I can be competitive in because I don't have 6
>> towers with stacked beams. Hell I don't even have a beam, just a good
>> vertical and made 1500 QSO in CQWW WPX, from the middle of the USA, 
>> Kansas.
>> I do have a NCC1 Dxengineering 2 antenna receiving array that I put 
>> up for
>> contests only. But, on the other hand, I run CW and CW gets through 599
>> with 100 watts where the same would take 15000 watts on SSB for the same
>> arm chair communication.
>>
>> The cheapest way to communicate with less power is painful for some, but
>> the truth is always painful when you take the easy way out.
>>
>> Drum Roll,
>>
>> Learn CW
>>
>> My 2 cents, and add that to 3$ and you might be able to get a good 
>> cup of
>> coffee or a good sized can or Monster III.
>>
>> Vy 73,
>>
>> Morgan NJ8M
>
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