My wife won $1000 off an Expert amplifier at Visalia maybe 5
years ago. I ended up getting a 1.3K because I had noticed many
DXpeditions using it. Mine is still working well, knock on wood.
I run in on 120V at theMedium power setting. I get 700-800 watts
out. I'm always thinking of selling it and getting an Elecraft
Amp, but so far no action.
My latest station dream has the antennas 150-200 feet from the
operating area. I could put the amp in the barn to shorten the
feed lines.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 9/18/21 at 9:46 PM, jkb...@usa.net (Jerry Kirshenbaum) wrote:
re: it'd pay to review the SPE
In May 2021 I bought a SPE 1.5K-FA 2nd generator new from the
distributor in Texas. I’ve been using a SunSDR2 DX 100W
transceiver while I wait to receive my K4D. The 1st time the
finals blew may have been operator error. Subsequently, I
discovered that the software allows one to limit the power on
each band. So I set the SPE to mid power (it has low, mid, high
settings) and determined the correct output for 700-800W. That
left at least 20% head room. Despite this seem lying failsafe
procedure, the finals blew again. The distributor would not
cover this under warranty on the grounds that my radio has
spurious spikes which blew the finals. In fact, if you run the
“wrong” radio with this amp, you don’t have any warranty
because the radio is indicted as the cause of failure sight unseen.
The amp when it works is wonderful. One case, 24 lbs, very
quiet. I had everything linked together with my SteppIR DB18E
through DxLab.
Two times back to the distributor for repair in 3 months was
enough. I sold it and now have a KPA1500 which is working great.
BTW, the distributor also says the IC-7300 (my backup) has
spurious spikes as well and presumably is another transceiver
not covered under their warranty.
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