I wouldn't be holding my breath Dan. At one time, quite awhile ago,
there were rumors of a KPA800 and/or KPA1500, and I believe one or more
prototypes were built. A good friend, one of the Elecraft KPA500
engineers, mentioned that those prototypes fed a lot of the design into
the 500, possibly why the 500 will run forever on RTTY at 500+ watts.
I'm told the field testers were instructed to run them with all bars lit.
There are a lot of good 1.0, 1.2, and 1.5 KW HF amps out there, this may
be a market Elecraft has decided to pass up. I don't blame them.
My KPA500 is solid as a rock. I had a 1200 W amp before, I ran it at
500 W for a year just to see if I could tell the difference, I couldn't,
N6RK now has my old amp, I'm a happy ham. If I run the temp up to 70C,
[that would be constant CQ's in a RTTY contest] the fans kick in, my
wife says "they're noticeable." I'm about 3/4 deaf, I always operate
with headphones, and I don't notice it. YMMV I've never had them come
on high on CW or SSB.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org
On 12/23/2014 7:15 PM, KG5EJU wrote:
Very new to Elecraft, just own a W2, but looking long at the KPA500.
Heard a couple rumors that a 1000 Watt unit was coming, but with
separate power supply.
Any truth to this?
Thanks.
- Dan
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