During the NAQP RTTY, at one point I was calling a solid stream of CQ's at 100 watts output on RTTY and not getting any replies. I was watching the PA Temp, and it climbed up to 65C and looked like it wanted to keep rising pretty quickly. I think hi temp shutdown is at 84C. I backed off on my CQ's and used the other radio for a while. I had the fan speed locked on step 4. All of this was at 13.8VDC. With any kind of heavy duty usage, I don't think cranking up the voltage is a good idea. A better idea is to buy an AL-1500 or similar low drive amp, which will give you 1500 watts out with 50 watts of drive. NOW, we are talking "juice." ;)
Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ ______________________________________________________________ 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
