Amen, Gary; I have an Alpha 87A, and since I got the KPA500 it has set dormant on the shelf. The 87A is fully automatic as is the KPA500, but the KPA500 changes bands faster and has no warm up or detectable tune time. I can't count how many DX stations I missed waiting for it to do the three minute warm up.
Don't get me wrong. The 87A is a great amp, but it can't match the warm up and band change speed of the KPA500. On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:25:22 +1000, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] >The KPA-500 is a genuine 500W amplifier and I have found it great to use >with a 4 element yagi. Expecting to work the EU with a G5RV and 1500W is >about as silly an idea as trying the KPA-500 into a 1/4 wave mobile whip. >Yes there are conditions where everything works, but not often. > [snip] >JM2CW > >Gary >* ______________________________________________________________ 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
