"Some People" does not a market make.
The 1KW and up amplifier market is awash with suppliers. Yaesu, Icom,
SPE, Ameritron, Alpha, OM Power, Emtron or whoever owns them now,
Dishtronics. To be competitive they'd have to design an amp that works
with anybody's transceiver just like the KPA500 does with the K3(s) and
be as rugged as an AL1500, the contest crowds favorite amp. Add solid
state to that and your market shrinks because fewer people will drop
$8K+ on an amp. I'd bet they'd sell less than 1,000...ever.
Smart move is to let the legal limit amplifier folks do what they do
best and Elecraft do what it does best, make radios.
On 7/30/2016 9:51 PM, Kevin - K4VD wrote:
I'm not so sure. Just the rumor of a big Elecraft amp had some people
(including me) quite interested. In fact, based on some of the pictures,
Elecraft had some interest in the past.
Amps are not evil and I also don't think they are incompatible -
technically or philosophically - with Elecraft. I value skill,
intelligence, cunning and brute force when necessary.
If ever Elecraft comes out with a legal limit amp I'd be asking the boss
for OT.
On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Rick Braun <rhbr...@msn.com> wrote:
I was heartened to see Wayne’s response to this rumor. It seems
inceivable that Elecraft would offer such a product, much less one designed
by someone else. Big amps are about being loud, busting pileups, . When
receivers were less sensitive and sophisticated, e.g. digital filters,
digital noise reduction, etc., you needed power to get in the front ends of
DX receivers. We don’t need that power anymore except to contest, i.e.
blow out the ops with less power. To me this don’t seem like the Elecraft
ethic. They aren’t QRP snobs, and they seem to value skill, intelligence,
and cunning, rather than brute power. Whole big amp thing struck me as
odd.
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