[Elecraft] Linear thoughts

[Jamie WW3S]

Dan is a great guy, but all that’s really needed for the K3 is a simple 
cable, very easy to construct yourself.....SPE even provides the 
connectors....

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From: James F. Boehner MD via Elecraft
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:36 PM
To: 'garyk9gs' ; john at kk9a.com ; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Linear thoughts

Just as an FYI,

Expert Linears Dan Tassell KC5PCB makes up a custom plug-and-play cable for 
the K3/SPE, so interfacing is really not a problem.

’73 de JIM N2ZZ

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garyk9gs
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 10:25 PM
To: john at kk9a.com; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Linear thoughts

At Orlando the introductory price for the Genius was $6999.00 and they were 
taking orders for. I think, June delivery.  They just received the FCC type 
acceptance a few days before.
I would assume that the SPE amps all integrate with the K3 in a similar 
fashion.  When I used the SPE 2K in CQWW CW it was like having a 1.5K 
K3..just hummed along all weekend.




73-Gary K9GS
-------- Original message --------From: john at kk9a.com Date: 3/16/17  8:36 PM 
(GMT-06:00) To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft]  Linear 
thoughts I still have not seen the Genius pricing. I'm not sure what ever 
happened to the Acom 1200S.  Many people use the SPE 1.3KW on expeditions, I 
wonder how easy it is to hook it up to the K3S.  The KPA-500 works nicely 
with the K3S but giving up 4.5dBs is considerable, a KPA-1000 would be hard 
to resist.

John KK9A

From: Gary K9GS
Thu Mar 16 19:19:38 EDT 2017

I think that the ship has sailed with respect to Elecraft bringing a legal 
limit SS amp to market.

There are a growing number of lightweight legal limit amps already on the 
market.  The FlexRadio Power Genius looks especially promising:
http://www.flexradio.com/amateur-products/powergenius-xl/

It only weighs 33 pounds.  I saw it in operation at the Orlando HamCation 
and it looked very impressive operating all weekend into a dummy load at a 
conservative 1.5 kw output.

SPE also just announced a 1.5 kw amp..something I'm surprised they did given 
that they already have a 1 kw, 1.3 kw, and a 2kw amp on the market.  I know 
of several people that have the 1 kw amp and use it with their K3 radios and 
they love them.  I've used the big SPE amp in CQWW CW and it worked 
flawlessly all weekend without a hiccup.

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