Hi John, Short answer, yes! I ran a mint Yaesu FL-7000 perfectly fine on my Flex 5000a past 2.5yrs. I used the Ameritron rig-linear ptt interface for a bit of isolation/protection, always kept my drive around 40-50w and never had a problem. Usually gave me 250-400 out depending what band I was on. (amp is capable of 650w but I barely ever needed to do drive it that hard).
In my view, its important not to over-drive the solid state amps too hard because of no ALC control so it just takes a bit of care. You will need to take adequate RF protection also, good FireWire cable, decent toroids around the other connectors, rig grounded to the PC... But then again, those things are standard procedure on Flex radios, linear or not... ! 73, kevin VE7OVY ------------------------------- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:50:24 -0400 From: John Molenda <[email protected]> To: [email protected],[email protected] Subject: [FlexEdge] Is it ok to use a solid state amp Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello , I saw somewhere that there was a problem when using a flex with a solid state amp . I am considering to purchase a solid state amp to use with my flex 5000 and would like to avoid any issues before I get into trouble . So I would be interested to know if there are people out there having good luck running a solid state amp with there flex radio . thanks John Molenda kb2huk _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and other technical SDR topics.
