Jim and all, At 5 watts input, I get something just "north" of 75 watts out of the KPA500. At 7 watts input, I get 100 watts out from the KPA500. That's not a "precise" measurement, but hopefully close enough. That was on 40 meters, by the way. In any event, without doing the math, that seems pretty close to the 15 DB gain figure I think they were shooting for. I know that about 28 watts input from the K3 just "tickles" the 500 watt output LED on the KPA500. That's about where I run it when using the amp.
Looking ahead, at the KX3, 10 watts generates about 150 watts, and 12 watts gets nearly 175 watts. Dave W7AQK ______________________________________________________________ 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
