[Elecraft] new KPA1500 Manual
Bill Mader
billamader at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 07:46:14 EDT 2019
I agree with your comments on the amplifier's manual Peter. Getting tech
data right is a challenge. I spent my last six years in the USAF at a
Major Command HQ where I would visit our primary depot twice a year to
discuss product improvement. Tech data was a key part of those meetings.
Even though most of our troubleshooting stopped at the module replacement
level, we had schematics for each module. One year while I was at the base
level I got to train a pair of Iranian Air Force sergeants depot level
troubleshooting and repair on a UHF ground-to-air transceiver. My
background in ham radio gave me the needed understanding of electronics to
do that.
I will see Elecraft folks at the IDXC in Visalia this coming weekend. I'll
likely have dinner with Bob, K6XX, the KPA1500 project manager Saturday
night. I'll pass on your thoughts. BTW, I've pushed my KPA1500 hard in
two SSB contests already this year. It has performed flawlessly.
73, Bill Mader, K8TE
W6H NM Coordinator, Route 66 On-the-Air 7-15 Sep 2019
ARRL New Mexico Section Manager
*ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio**™*
Duke City Hamfest BoD www.dukecityhamfest.org 20-22 Sep 2019
President, Albuquerque DX Association
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 11:52 PM Peter Hall <P.Hall at curtin.edu.au> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Having spent time, over many years, piecemeal updating Jeppersen and CASA
> (the national aviation regulatory authority) pilot documents, I regard it
> as wasted time I'll never get back. I hope that Elecraft does not go down
> this path but agree absolutely that, these days, good searchable PDFs make
> life much easier. One thing that is always useful is the update register
> (already often used) and text markers indicating changes from the previous
> edition (often vertical bars at affected paragraphs).
>
> On the subject of the KPA1500 manual, I have much appreciated the
> additions to the original document but would like to see the block diagram
> expanded to make it more useful in terms of appreciating the amplifier
> topology and the relation to connectors, etc. For example, the current
> very terse diagram does not show the pre-distortion coupler or its location
> and, if you hadn't had a spectrum analyser on the amplifier, you might not
> appreciate that it's not a direct output coupler. Of course, I'd like to
> see the whole schematic but I understand that it must be a tricky
> commercial IP balancing act with a new product.
>
> 73, Peter (VK6HP).
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
> On Behalf Of K8TE
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2019 2:34 AM
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] new KPA1500 Manual
>
> Right on! First, I have over two decades of experience with replacing
> printed pages in Air Force Technical Orders. What a PITA, but necessary.
> Today, those are distributed electronically and printed locally. Often,
> it's not possible to make a change that affects only one page since the
> change, often an addition, pushes information on to the next page.
>
> Thanks to Elecraft (not all manufactures do this), we can annotate the PDF
> versions with the latest firmware notes, ideas from this reflector, our
> just our own pointers. The PDF then becomes a current, searchable document
> of great value!
>
> As I point out in my ham radio presentations, it's 2019. We do a lot of
> things with computers now. Join the 21st century. The technology has
> certain advantages, especially if you back-up your data.
>
> 73, Bill, K8TE
>
>
>
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