My Titan 425 Owners Manual: " POWER OUTPUT: 1500 Watts ssb or cw, 1000
Watts continuous RTTY, SSTV."
Heat build up in the shack may be a problem at higher power levels and high
speed CW / high qso rates but its unlikely that you can exceed 50% duty
cycle of the Titan 425 at 1500W and 40 WPM even if you are QSK and only
going to full receive to make a contact.
73 es DX from ICE Stormed Illinois,
Gary - AB9M
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From: "Martin Ewing" <martin.s.ewing@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:12 PM
To: <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Titan IIII ????
> I take your point, except it's hard to imagine 100% duty cycle CW...
> Unless
> your weighting is a lot different from mine. ;-)
>
> 73 Martin AA6E
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Ken Brown
> <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> > a true legal limit 1500 watts amp.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> There are various interpretations of what a true legal limit 1500 watt
>> amplifier is. To some that means it can produce 1500 watts peak in SSB
>> service, but less in CW or RTTY service. Others say it is true legal
>> limit if it can put out 1500 watts for a short period of time, like a
>> minute with 5 or 10 minutes of idle time, in CW or RTTY mode. And there
>> are those (myself included) who insist it is not a full legal limit
>> amplifier unless it can put out 1500 watts in high duty cycle, nearly
>> 100% duty cycle, RTTY or CW contesting. There are a lot of people who
>> stick with tube amplifiers, because few if any of the solid state
>> offerings are true full legal limit 1500 watt amplifiers by that
>> definition. If Ten-Tec made one, it would be one of the few available,
>> and if the price was comparable to similarly capable tube amps, it might
>> sell a bunch.
>>
>> DE N6KB
>>
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> Martin Ewing, AA6E
> Branford, CT
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