Hi Paul Thats what I am more interested in, the IMD performance of the future KPA500.
I own a Harris RF355 that I would like to replace with a solid state amp. I use this AMP in my remote station. It is a maintenance headache with limited integration potential. Unfortunately non of the solid state offerings on the market have acceptable IMD performance. I seriously doubt that there will ever be a solid state amplifier manufactured for the ham market that will approach the IMD performance of the the Harris RF355 with the single 3cx800. I wish Acom would produce a Autotune amplifier that uses a pair of 3cx800PX's At least the IMD performance would be a certainty. I dont know what devices the KPA500 uses? 73 John --- On Tue, 1/25/11, Paul Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul Christensen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 - just 500 watts? > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 8:47 AM > > Speaking of dollars per watt, > I'm presently using a homebrew pair of 813's > > which produce > > 800 watts (QSK but no 6M) and I have less than $400 > into it. $0.50 dollars > > per watt. > > Impressive, Vic. I would love to see some photos of your > amp! In addition > to the price/watt factor, perhaps equally important is a > figure that takes > into account price in relation to IMD in -dBc per $. > > Paul, W9AC > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
