Hey Vic; Hope you are enjoying life in Israel. Someday I'd love to visit the country. Strange not having you over here, though.
As for the original KPAs, I can assure you that at this time there are no functional units. There are a lot of wild rumors on the list in this topic, most very much untrue. But, I will also say that the KPA500 contains a close derivative of the firmware from the earlier effort. And yes, the older units were beasts! Carrying them took a bit of effort! 73! JackB, W6FB Sent from my iPad > On Dec 13, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Vic Rosenthal <k2vco....@gmail.com> wrote: > > There was a KPA1500 and KPA800 shown at Visalia one year. I saw the 1500 in > action, connected to a keyer sending an endless loop into a dummy load at > full power. I was told later that there was no problem with performance or > FCC specs. They simply wanted to concentrate their resources into the K3, > which had just come out. The projected price, though, was WAY above $5000. > > When they came up for air after selling a gazillion K3's, they apparently > decided that an amplifier the same size as the K3 that could run on 120V and > sell for less than a king's ransom was a better product. I have heard that a > prototype KPA1500 is in the shack of a loud ham in California. > > Vic K2VCO/4X6GP > >> On Dec 13, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n...@contesting.com> wrote: >> >> One existed, in prototype form, and one of the testers told me that a few >> were in the field for testing. It was shown at Dayton at least one year, >> maybe 10 years ago now. I suspect it used many of the transistors then >> available. >> >> Did you guys notice that the amp in the latest QST cost $4500 for parts - of >> course, it was two 1.25 KW RF decks in one box, so the cost for a 160-6M >> legal limit amp might be similar. Still, when you're cranking out KX3s and >> K3s and P3s and KPA500s the way they are, does it make sense to build up >> production facilities for a couple of hundred amps a year? >> >> 73, Pete N4ZR >> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at >> http://reversebeacon.net, >> blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. >> For spots, please go to your favorite >> ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. >> >>> On 12/12/2014 7:58 PM, Richard Thorne wrote: >>> I'd be a buyer. >>> >>> Rich - N5ZC >>> >>>> On 12/12/2014 6:17 PM, CenturyLink Customer wrote: >>>> >>>> As a 6 month Elecrafter (k3+p3) I have never seen any discussion nor >>>> requests for a legal limit compatible Elecraft amplifier with the seamless >>>> attributes of the kpa500 . It would seem that the now extablished 1000 w >>>> devices could form the basis for a commercially viable amplifier. Perhaps >>>> no one else is interested, but I wanted to ask if such a product is even >>>> on the "consideration" list? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Myron >>>> >>>> W7LXN >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>>> Message delivered to rtho...@rthorne.net >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> Message delivered to n...@contesting.com >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to k2vco....@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to jackbrin...@me.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
