[Elecraft] The 1500 watt amp

'DGB' ns9i2016 at Bayland.net
Sun Jul 31 19:03:31 EDT 2016


ditto ditto ! ;-)

73 de NS9I


On 7/31/2016 4:36 PM, Art Peters wrote:
> I would say, here is to itchy conditions ….
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> 73,
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> Art Peters, K0ACP
> k0acp at k0acp.com
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>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
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>> The K2 DSP is the only such case, and as noted, Lyle has been with us exclusively ever since. All other Elecraft products were designed by our full-time or part-time engineering staff.
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>> We would not source someone else's QRO amp design. We would reserve the fun for ourselves :)
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>> Those exploratory models from 2006 were designed by our senior RF engineer in his "spare time." If he gets the itch again someday, we'll let you know.
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>> 73,
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
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>>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws at triconet.org <mailto:wes_n7ws at triconet.org>> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>> "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.")
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>>> Many other "Elecraft" designs were done similarly, by someone else, PAs included.
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>>> 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
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>>> Wes N7WS
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>>>> 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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