[Elecraft] The 1500 watt amp

[Wes Stewart]

Apparently you don't know Elecraft's engineering process.  Many "Elecraft" 
products were "designed by someone else", starting with the DSP in the K2.  
Here's what Wayne had to say about that:

"A major milestone in our history was the KDSP2 option for the K2. Lyle Johnson, 
KK7P, became known to us *after* he had mostly completed this highly versatile 
DSP unit. He reverse-engineered the auxBus protocol and made the KDSP2 behave as 
if it were a KAF2, which plugged into the same spot. He showed it to us, and we 
immediately adopted both the product and Lyle himself."

Lyle now works for Elecraft from the comfort of his home here in Tucson..(What I 
call, "distributed engineering.")

Many other "Elecraft" designs were done similarly, by someone else, PAs included.

BTW QRO is about being heard.  I'm often amused by the digital mode crowd, who 
profess that one doesn't need "power" to get through, i.e., "I work the world 
with 5 W on ESP (your favorite mode here)."  Some of them even make imaginary 
QSOs on EME. http://www.sm2cew.com/jt65.html

Wes N7WS
www.qrz.com/db/n7ws


On 7/30/2016 5:40 PM, Rick Braun wrote:
> I was heartened to see Wayne’s response to this rumor.  It seems inceivable that Elecraft would offer such a product, much less one designed by someone else.   Big amps are about being loud, busting pileups,  .  When receivers were less sensitive and sophisticated, e.g. digital filters, digital noise reduction, etc., you needed power to get in the front ends of DX receivers.  We don’t need that power anymore except to contest, i.e. blow out the ops with less power.  To me this don’t seem like the Elecraft ethic.  They aren’t QRP snobs, and they seem to value skill, intelligence, and cunning, rather than brute power.   Whole big amp thing struck me as odd.
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