Thank you all for the responses. Our situation here is somewhat different regarding emergency preparedness. We are a very rural environment in SW Oregon. No cell service, frequent land line outages, very mountainous terrain and few options for communication in the event of an extreme emergency. The State of Oregon has been actively engaged with local ARES groups to prepare for an expected 9.1 subduction zone quake off of the Pacific Coast. All models point toward a complete disruption of all services for months and much of the destruction to disrupt the norm for years. Our community is isolated with the probability of all infrastructure collapsing and our demographic being physically unable to move in or out of the area except by foot. There are approximately 300 people within the thus affected zone. I am interested in opening up as much bandwidth as possible to provide maximum versatility for communication. This would include the MARS bands. We have several folks here with General and Extra class licenses. I don't think our radios should be encumbered with the limitation of band width. I suppose I could acquire the patch by some other means but I would just as soon have it from Elecraft.
I have not purchased yet but I am particularly interested in the possibility of an amplifier for my radios. I wondered if the KAT500 hundred could handle more than 100 watts? In discussions with club members it is apparent that some are for and others against 1000 watt amps etc. I'm curious if the elecraft tuner has wattage limits. ----- Stan KG7FYI -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-P3-and-KAT500-tp7629969p7630020.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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]
