[Elecraft] KPA1500/PS SPACING

[Wes]

My boyhood neighbor and "Elmer", Lee, W7UVR (see my QRZ page) fell into a trust 
fund income and had all of the toys.  He enlisted a local ham, who was a tool 
and die maker and great builder of equipment, to build the mechanicals of a CW 
rig using a Geloso VFO driving an HK57. I begged him to let me buy and finish 
the rig.  He said, no doubt correctly at the time, that this would be beyond me, 
but his brother, W6GMC, had a DX100 that he built but no longer wanted, and that 
would be the ideal rig for me.  IIRC the kit sold for $189 and he would sell the 
assembled rig for the same amount and I could pay him $5/week. The deal was 
struck and he drove to CA to pick up the DX100.  That and my BC-342-N was the 
station.

When I got interested in two-meters in the 1960s  I did build quite a few amps; 
one of them used an 829B and I "stole" the modulated B+ from the DX100 to run it 
on AM.

Wes  N7WS


On 7/2/2022 3:35 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 7/2/2022 1:58 PM, Wes wrote:
>> Hard to believe.  A man of your age and experience.
>
> My experience was earlier, with an Apache, and later a TV. And there were a 
> DX100 and SX101 that an older ham loaned me because he couldn't pass the 13 
> wpm code test. Before that, it was a couple of Command sets and a BC348, and 
> before that, an S38D. No way could I have bought that DX100 in my high school 
> days -- it was two summers of work for the BC348.
>
> I bought my first amp in 2004.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC