Bob
I'm steering slightly off course and I feel I must come in: I presume that
during the manufacturing process, the amplifier goes through a production
process to set up the indicators using a lab quality load and modern, lab
quality power meter, regularly calibrated. I have a Bird with
I wouldn’t run the KPA500 at half power. And 25 watts of drive is certainly
more than mine requires to attain rated power, except on 6M where it requires
25 watts.
As to power output indicators, I used my Bird43 and a 500 watt element with a
known good 50 ohm load. I then calibrated the
Hello Elecrafters
Thanks for your time on this, & I hope to find you all in good health
My setup is K3+KPA500+KAT500.
Sometime ago due to probably high SWR (water in the Pl259 leading to
KAT-500) the KPA-500 stopped after a loud noise (can't tell whether KPA or
KAT) was heard.
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