Solid State Amps
Posted by
k0wa@swbell.net on
Jun 01, 2007; 3:01pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Solid-State-Amps-tp448434.html
When I attended Dayton this year and reading the magazines, I see there is now a great interest in solid state amps.
I thought that these amps were...well...not as efficient as tube amps thus not being attractive to hams. I guess we wanted BIG iron for an amp.
Ameritron has two amps out for quite some time...the 500 and 600 with the 600 now coming with a switching PS. It seems people who own the 600 watt model like them very much.
Even "E" has the contesters contest amp and it is solid state. So, what has changed? Have the SS Amps gotten more efficient? Higher voltages? What effects the efficiency of these amps where now there seems to be a market for the Japanese and the Italians.
Now most radios provide 100 watts output using transistors and the tube finals in rigs have long been gone. So, is this just a natural evolution of amplifiers or is some new technological breakthrough happened in high powered solid state amplifiers?
Lee - K0WA
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