Re: another kpa500 question

Posted by Jim Brown-10 on Dec 29, 2011; 6:13pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Another-KPA500-question-tp7134629p7136369.html

On 12/29/2011 9:52 AM, bob finger wrote:
>   No excuse now not to order a KPA500.  I'm looking forward to it.

You will LOVE it, Bob.  Many times I've QSYed quickly from one band to
another to work a DX spot, and I'm ready to go as soon as I've switching
to a reasonably well matched antenna and pointed it in the right
direction!  No waiting for the filaments to warm up (or paying PG&E to
keep them warm), no tuning the amp.  The new tuner will make that even
nicer and more flexible. When some of the bigger DXpeditions have been
working several bands at a time, I've been able to work them on 3-4
bands in a few minutes!  The amp falls back a bit if the mismatch is too
great to drive, and faults gracefully (that is, fast reset) if you screw
up with overdrive or the wrong antenna.

73, Jim K9YC
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