[Elecraft] Stacking K3, KAT500 and KPA500

[Jerry]

Good morning all,

 

I am in the process of making my station a S02R operation for contest. I
have been planning the layout of the station and the thought came that if I
stack the K3 at the bottom, with the KAT400 on top of the K3 with the
KPA500, it would solve the space issue. It rasises questions about :

1.       Would the K3 support the stack?

2.       Will I be having heat issues. I use RTTY (FSK) quite a bit and
noticed that the K3 PA temp is about 45 to 47C when driving the KPA500 full
500 watts. 

There may be other issues, but at this time, I think the major ones would be
weight and heat.

 

Best regards,

 

Jerry, W1IE