[Elecraft] The 1500 watt amp

Josh Fiden josh at voodoolab.com
Sun Jul 31 17:39:33 EDT 2016


Before I switched to the K3, I ran Icom gear with their PW-1 amp. While 
the PW-1 had a few shortcomings, having a 160-6 KW amp with built-in 
tuner, 4 antenna outs which auto-select per band, and integration with 
the transceiver was pretty great. It had an internal switching power 
supply which would run from either 120 or 240v. At 120v max output power 
was reduced.

These days my operating is primarily HF contesting and 6m EME, so a 500W 
amp is not interesting. Something like the PW-1, done right with 
Elecraft's attention to detail, absolutely would be interesting.

73,
Josh W6XU


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