Posted by
Lu Romero - W4LT on
Feb 12, 2010; 3:17am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Elecraft-Amps-tp4558598p4559076.html
If you want this, its already out there. :)
I purchased a 600w solid state "kit" amp, actually, it was a "kit" amp by
happenstance. A brand new Ameritron ALS-600 that I had to do final QC on and
replaced the original Slow-as-Moses TR relay with the AD5X full QSK micro
switch board.
It's a wonderful little amplifier (now), in all honesty, but I would have
happily paid the same amount of money (circa $1,300) for something I could
have built from a box of parts and directly interfaced with the K3.
Building stuff. That is a lot of the fun in Ham Radio for me, because I
don't have the time or tools to design and build from scratch.
When I started in Ham Radio, I was a Heathkit junkie. I had a basement full
of two tone green back in the late '70's, and the K3 has reawakened that
addiction, now that the kids are grown and I have time again.
-lu-
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:15:50 -0600
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I'll weigh in, just in case the Aptos crew is taking notes and
counting votes. ;-)
An off-the-shelf, high-end appliance to compete with THP or SPE would
be a high-cost, low-volume, low-profit venture, something I would not
want to undertake in the current economic conditions if I were CEO of
a small company like Elecraft.
Personally, I'd love a small (500w or 600w) solid-state amplifier kit
that I can build myself (a *real* kit, with soldering iron and
everything!). Some of us don't have the time, tools, and/or smarts to
homebrew such a creature on our own and would jump all over a kit like
this. It doesn't have to be anything revolutionary, just a simple amp
built around MRF150's or whatever. Base model would work with any rig
to make it appeal to the mass market, with options to expand
functionality (built-in ATU, K2/K3 interface, etc.), kind of like the
way the K2 is marketed -- buy what you need. If it could be sold for
less than a comparable Ameritron, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
73,
Paul WW2PT
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