Well, yesterday after much thought I finally ordered the KPA500/KAT500-K combo. The sale helped nudge me to do it now rather than later, but I had been slowly settling on that package for a month or two now.
I'm currently using a Heathkit SB-1000 amp - a fine amp, but manually tuned. Plus, if I run it conservatively I usually am putting out around 600 watts. Yes, it will do a kilowatt. For a bit, and that is pushing it. So, I have worked plenty of DX and busted pileups with 500 to 600 watts. It does seem to me that I am often QSY'ing quickly so the amp isn't really peaked up, so half the time it's more like 500 watts out than 600. I am looking forward to building these - I read the manuals and can't wait to dig into them.. For what it's worth, I was quoted a shipping wait of 5 to 7 days at the most. I sure hope none of those pesky KPA1500's delay my toys! I am guessing I will not see much difference between the two amps in terms of effectiveness of the transmitted output signal in actually putting DX in the log, but I wonder what others have observed? 73 de Chuck, WS1L -- =================== Chuck Chandler [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]
