There is no tuner in the amp. Need for KAT500 depends on your antenna(s). If they are resonant and reasonably wide-band you may get away without it. How does K3 play with your antenna(s)? KAT3 is bypassed with KAT500
Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On May 7, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Slava Baytalskiy <sla...@nullserv.com> wrote: > > Thanks for all the replies, gentlemen! > Certainly gives me food for thought. > I do want the kpa500. I love building Elecraft kits. > One more question: is there a tuner inside that amp? How does it auto-tune? > And if so - does that mean that I will have 3 tuners? KAT3, KAT500 and > whatever tuner is in the amp? > And also, is KAT500 pretty much a must? > > Does anyone know if Elecraft actually has any plans to put out higher powered > amp anytime soon? > > Slava Baytalskiy > sla...@nullserv.com > W2RMS > >> On May 7, 2014, at 11:39 AM, "d...@lightstream.net" <d...@lightstream.net> >> wrote: >> >> Increasing power from: >> 100W to 600W provides 7.8dB gain (1.3 S-units) >> 600W to 1.5KW provides 4 dB gain (0.67 S-unit) >> >> ... so that first 600W is huge. >> >> Considering the tight integration w/ the K3 and KAT500, and the fact that >> it also plays nicely w/ other transceivers, I think the KPA500 provides >> great value for the investment. >> >> 73, Dale >> WA8SRA >> >> >> >>> >>>> Is there a tremendous difference between legal limit and about half of >>>> it >>> >>> One third, not a half. The KPA is 500W. Legal limit is 1500W. >>> >>> Gary >>> -- >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to sla...@nullserv.com > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to n...@widomaker.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
