G'day,
Biggest con: the fan. I find it loud and distracting, and even
after the KPA100 cools down to threshold temperature, the fan
remains on until an event such as transmittion of CW sig. This
means if the fan kicks in during high power transmit, then you go
back into receive mode to listen to the other station for a while,
fan remains on (loudly) forever, and I deliberately have to send a
CW dit to force it to (re-evaluate temp?) and turn itself off. This
potentially confuses the op on the other end who thinks I'm
trying to get his attention.
If it doesnt' really work that way, please correct me, but that's
been my
experience.
Not how mine works, or as it is intended to work. This doesn't fit in
with any fan mode offered in the menu.
Noisy, yes, distracting, yes, however, when the heatsink cools to the
threshold temp mine shuts off as described in the manual. External
fans have been discussed at length for extended operation with the
upside that the noisy little - your word(s) - doesn't even come on.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
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