On 12/29/2011 9:52 AM, bob finger wrote: > No excuse now not to order a KPA500. I'm looking forward to it.
You will LOVE it, Bob. Many times I've QSYed quickly from one band to another to work a DX spot, and I'm ready to go as soon as I've switching to a reasonably well matched antenna and pointed it in the right direction! No waiting for the filaments to warm up (or paying PG&E to keep them warm), no tuning the amp. The new tuner will make that even nicer and more flexible. When some of the bigger DXpeditions have been working several bands at a time, I've been able to work them on 3-4 bands in a few minutes! The amp falls back a bit if the mismatch is too great to drive, and faults gracefully (that is, fast reset) if you screw up with overdrive or the wrong antenna. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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
