Interesting. As a field tester I tried darned hard to break mine, unsuccessfully, guess I failed again.
Sadly, some components do fail, you just have to take it on the chin. My experience with several MFJ products has not been good, I successfully broke all of them at least once. It's sometimes just a case of luck, or that chap, what's his name?, oh yeah, Murphy. 73 Gary -----Original Message----- From: "David G4DMP" <[email protected]> Sent: 12/11/2015 6:58 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 troubles Same in the UK, Jim. Operation on 60m does not require the use of a KPA500 unless one wants to contravene the terms of one's license. 73 de David G4DMP In a recent message, Jim Brown <[email protected]> writes >On Wed,11/11/2015 12:10 PM, W4GRJ wrote: >> Got the KPA500 back from Elecraft. >> Repair $650 later: Replaced low pass filter module and installed QSK mod. >> Problem found: L22 and other components in the 60M low pass filter circuit >> burnt through the LPF PCB. > >60M LPF??? Last I looked, the US power limit on 60M is 100W relative to >a half wave dipole. > -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + | David M Pratt, Kippax, Leeds. | | Website: http://www.g4dmp.co.uk | + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
