Aye, and there's the rub of the matter. I just spent 20 minutes surfing the web looking for the definition of "QRP". Of the half dozen or so well known sites I visited, in the US and abroad, the definition of QRP is 5 Watts CW and 10W SSB MAX. Not 20 if you got it, not 30 if running on an outboard PS, etc...
The simple fact is you can't support more than 10W out and keep battery life in the realm of reality. You can't just put a bigger battery in it and keep the form factor. I really don't see what the problem is. If you're using it as a trail radio weight and battery life mean everything. If your a dedicated QRPer 10W is the limit. If you want to use the radio mobile buy the amp. If you want to run mobile with ridiculously inefficient antennas, and QRP your a masochist and need to be ignored. ;-) If none of the above fits buy a K3 and be well. On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:40:27 +1000 Gary Gregory <garyvk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Either the KX3 is a QRP radio or not....adding another 10-20W > available on battery power makes it less attractive to me. -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
