[Elecraft] Price increases held off until after this weekend's Hamcation Show

2023-02-09 Thread Eric Swartz
We just finished setting up our booth at the Hamcation show in Orlando, FL, this afternoon. Whew! To give everyone a chance to benefit from the current pre-increase prices, we will be holding off the increases for everyone ordering at the show, on the internet or by phone until after the show.

[Elecraft] KPA1500 EXPERIENCE (was Re: KPA1500 opinions)

2023-02-09 Thread Jim Brown
Retitled, for a good reason. When I ask a question like this, I don't want opinions, I want facts! And facts are how I responded. :) 73, Jim K9YC On 2/9/2023 2:59 PM, j...@kk9a.com wrote: N4ZR posted a similar question on August 12, 2022 and few people publicly responded.

Re: [Elecraft] KPA1500 opinions

2023-02-09 Thread john
N4ZR posted a similar question on August 12, 2022 and few people publicly responded. I am sure some people will privately email you with their experiences. It seems like some people have great luck with the KPA1500 and others keep blowing LDMOS finals. It would be nice to pinpoint the cause for

Re: [Elecraft] K3 no power out

2023-02-09 Thread Fred Jensen
Right on Dave, except that "simple" is a better term than "obvious."  My K3 is S/N 642 ... very long in the tooth now.  Perhaps 8 or 9 years ago 30 m quit.  Just internal noise and infinite SWR.  All the other bands were fine.  After about 2 days of fooling with the myriad of connectors and

Re: [Elecraft] K3 no power out

2023-02-09 Thread Dave New, N8SBE
Josep, Please check the obvious things: 1) Is 'test mode' on? 2) Is the power level turned to zero? 3) Is the VOX on (for CW)? 4) Are you using the right antenna selection? 5) Is your key plugged in/wiring OK? I know some of this is really basic, but sometimes in the heat of battle, something

Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 failure

2023-02-09 Thread davidg3una
Lyn Just a thought: the rig has a remote on/off facility and you may be getting extraneous signals into that port. I know nothing more, but it may give you a clue where to start looking. 73 David G3UNA -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Lyn

Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 failure

2023-02-09 Thread Lyn Norstad
Here's another twist that makes me thing it could be a PS issue. Early this morning, I was hunting down 3Y0J on 10m FT8 (very strong signal here). WSJT-X was in F/H and S/P mode. I stepped out of the shack for a few minutes, and when I came back the KAP500 was powered ON, in Standby mode with

Re: [Elecraft] KPA1500 opinions

2023-02-09 Thread Pete Smith N4ZR
There is an excellent kpa1...@ghroups.io reflector where there has been a lot of discussion about maintenance history.  See particularly a post by W3IP on replacing the final transistors - there have been a fair number of such failures.  I'm glad that Jim had a good experience - my fairly