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Re: [CQ-Contest] Elecraft KPA 1500

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Elecraft KPA 1500
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 16:07:28 -0800
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On 3/6/2020 1:33 PM, Edward Sawyer wrote:
Who wants to be tapping things every 20khz?

It's a one time thing when you start using the amp -- you train the tuner to your antennas, then when you TX on a frequency it recalls the settings you've trained. And it can remember 3 settings for each output for each band, so you can switch antennas external to the amp and the amp will follow.

Yes, the range of the amp is SWR at the output connector. The tuner typically burns 0.5-0.8 dB, and the power meter internal to the amp is between output stage and tuner. I read power with and without tuner with an LP100A (which reads true power) a few feet of coax downstream of the output connector.

73, Jim K9YC


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