Cathy, Well put... I could not agree with you more... I have Ameritron
AL1500 Gives me full (plus) power and Kenwood TL922 (1400 watts). Yes both
are manual tune, but both work so great. I have repaired over 250 amplifiers
(both Solid state and tube), all were other peoples amps, my amps keep going
with no problems. If something did go wrong with one of my amps, it would
not be down long as I would not have to ship it anywhere to be repaired.
Most people with auto tune amps are not able to say that.
How is the performance??? Performance can't be exceeded or even matched.
Main radio is Flex 5000, SDR . All of which have netted me 9B-DXCC to the
tune of DXCC on ALL 8 HF bands as well as 160 meters and DXCC on 3 modes,
CW, Digital and SSB. Additionally ARRL Century award 2500 band countries as
well as ARRL DX honor roll. All of this done in little more than 10 years of
DXing. My point... I don't know of anyone with an auto tune amp that can
claim that. If anyone reading this is the exception to that, please let me
know, I would love to hear from you and then congratulate you.
73, Bruce, W8HW
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-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine James
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2016 09:12
To: Amps Group
Subject: [Amps] Not just you... The cost of amplifiers
"Maybe its just me, but I have problems wrapping my head around
spending $7995.00 ( $10,313.55 in cdn dollars)...on any amplifier"
It's not just you. I have trouble picturing myself spending more than, oh,
call it $3k on an amp, and even that would be a real stretch. Better to
surrender the money on multiple amps to provide backups and extra
capabilities.
I have 3 amps:. an AL-811H bought new, an SB-220 bought at a hamfest and
repaired, and a 2-meter TE Systems 160 watt amp. Probably have a total of
$2k invested on all three combined. ( Technically I have a fourth, a
QRP-to-35-watts HFPacker, but that's pretty specialized. It lets my K1 be
heard.)
I have sacrificed frequency agility to save $$$. To me it's a good
trade-off.
I've spent quite a bit of money on ham radio over 20+ years, but never too
much on any one thing.
73,
Cathy
N5WVR
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