Based on a presentation by Eric at the West Valley Amateur Radio
Association, Elecraft tends to build their equipment to run at
full advertised power with digital modes. Their model is a RTTY
contester calling CQ with 60% to 70% of the time transmitting.
He indicated that the KPA1500 would run for 5 minutes at full
output before needing a rest.
I have not had any problems running my K3 at 100W with FT8.
Interestingly, the fans speed up during the receive part of the cycle.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 3/18/19 at 1:39 PM, [email protected] (Richard
Corfield) wrote:
Don't Elecraft recommend using lower power for high duty digital modes?
(Though FT8 us 15s bursts so not as high duty as some).
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