When I attended Dayton this year and reading the magazines, I see there is now
a great interest in solid state amps.
I thought that these amps were...well...not as efficient as tube amps thus not
being attractive to hams. I guess we wanted BIG iron for an amp.
Ameritron has two amps out for quite some time...the 500 and 600 with the 600
now coming with a switching PS. It seems people who own the 600 watt model
like them very much.
Even "E" has the contesters contest amp and it is solid state. So, what has
changed? Have the SS Amps gotten more efficient? Higher voltages? What
effects the efficiency of these amps where now there seems to be a market for
the Japanese and the Italians.
Now most radios provide 100 watts output using transistors and the tube finals
in rigs have long been gone. So, is this just a natural evolution of
amplifiers or is some new technological breakthrough happened in high powered
solid state amplifiers?
Lee - K0WA
In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't
have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find
any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is
Common Sense devine?
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