Gary: No need to run for the cellar. Your question merits an answer.
Although you may find it hard to credit, I am primarily a QRP guy. The main reason I need to be able to run in excess of 100 Watts is when I do short haul (i.e., within my State of Maine) emergency and public service communications on 80 meters. About 25% of the time, the propagation conditions are not especially favorable for short haul communications and it takes about 400 Watts to assure reasonably reliable statewide coverage on 80 M. Ironically, at these same unfavorable times for short haul, I can easily be heard in Europe with 100 Watts, or even QRP, on 80 meters. Why go for an old tube type amp? I already own one; I bought it before solid state high power amps were available to hams. A fancy new solid state amp conveniently requires no tuning, but does require an investment in the $1200-2000 range (if not more) that I can ill afford (or so the XYL says, and her word is law in these matters) in these difficult financial times. 73, Steve AA4AK rfenab...@gmail.com wrote: > Sure glad I don't own an old amp that needs tuning...:-) > > 100W, K3...what more does anyone NEED? > > I know, I'm running for the cellar! > > Gary > Vk4wt > Sent via BlackBerry® from Telstra > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
