Several years ago at the Elecraft stand in Dayton I saw a prototype 1500-watt solid state amp. At the time I understood from the folks there (and maybe from some e-mails) that it had been built using some high-power transistors made by a company in Oregon (I think) with which K4XU is/was associated.
I was told a couple of years ago that the K3 project had superseded the amp, because of the much larger potential market. But now I'm wondering... To what extent does the KPA-500 share design and/or hardware with that prototype? Might it be feasible to build and sell a 1500-watt amp for something approximating three times the cost of the KPA-500? Now *that* would tempt me, even at over twice the cost of an AL-1200, for the fast bandswitching and the quiet power. -- 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 ______________________________________________________________ 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
