Hear! Hear! I owned two of these at one time. They are a pleasure to
maintain because all leads are labelled and shown in the schematic. The
RF deck is only 14 lbs. and can be located remotely from the PSU.
Easily puts out 1.5 KW with 40-50W drive. The best bargain on the used
market at $1.4-1.8K.
73, Joe
K2XX
Jim Brown <mailto:jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Friday, December 16, 2016 2:03 AM
The Ten Tec Titan is getting a bit long in the tooth, but it's a good
design, built with good components, and except for special stuff like
band switches and the power transformer, almost everything in it is
easy to find replacements for. It's not automatic anything, but it's
happy working into almost any antenna that isn't broken and the signal
it puts out is as clean as what you drive it with.
The little Elecraft KPA500 is very nice, also clean, but it needs to
see a matched load, and it's heavy. I like it for portable setups,
like county expeditions for state QSO parties.
The ACOM 1010 is easy enough to tune, but it isn't as clean as I would
like. I sold the one I had.
73, Jim K9YC
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BJ <mailto:fxb1982@hotmail.com>
Thursday, December 15, 2016 11:22 PM
>From a casual SSB op who owns/has owned the following:
High power:
Definitely the AL-1500. Best lots of bang for the buck, easy to
operate and forgiving.
ALS-1300. Troublesome at first but after the growing pains were taken
care of this amplifier worked as advertised. I believe the 1306 is
much like it +6.
Lower power:
Ameritron AL-80B. Old school glass tube. Best bang for the buck KW
amp. I had one and shouldn't have sold it. I still have its older
brother the A model. Still running strong with a 1990 Eimac 3-500.
I'll keep it until no longer economically viable.
Acom 600s. No nonsense continuous all mode 600 watt amplifier. So easy
to use it's boring. Built like a Cadillac. Looking forward to the Acom
1200s some day.
Again, this is from a casual SBB operator's point of view.
Have owned a bunch of others that are no longer on the market today.
73, k0cwo
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Charles H <mailto:k4vud@hotmail.com>
Thursday, December 15, 2016 8:10 PM
An Idiosyncratic opinion
The choice a ham makes in getting an amplifier is as unique as the ham
and needs and tastes make differences. Here is what I would say to any
ham who asked, "What amplifiers on the market should I consider":
"2 KW"-- meaning above 1.5w usually:
-Ameritron AL-1500F...$3400 w. imported 7788, best tube for
availability. Buy three amps for 3 bands and spend $10,200 and save
Dishtronic money even then. All manual tune, old-school and a bargain.
-OM and ACOM, dont know nuttin. Op should study.
-SPE Expert...$5046 FOB Rome, feature rich w. SWR+watt meter (antenna
tuner, mine will tune 3.9 down to abt 2.1 and go), six auto switched
outputs, two inputs (with SO2R that I dont understand, dont use) built
in and real antenna tuner that you tune once for band segments and not
agn unless changing antennas (fast retune for ants swinging in the
wind). Meter reads 2200w and auto cut back to about 800 on high heat
CAD, continuous amateur duty like RTTY, reads temperature, fast auto
accept of AC line voltage changes, hook to computer and never touch
its front panel.
-Note, SPE offers a "combiner" device to hook up two SPE amps and get
double output.
-Dishtronix 2400L 1/A, $10850... using factory internet info only.
Appears a new beast on the block, my subjective reactions. Suggests
that if ur SWR is high, just turn it up to compensate for lost power
(wow), no antenna tuner (I need one, ant swings in wind, changes as
rotated, etc.), limited outputs.
-Yaesu Quadra, 1 KW rating, do not push it. Matches Yaesu and has
built in ant tuner and two inputs, multiple outputs. SS but has been
around a long time. Check evaluations for notes about potential line
voltage problem.
-ICOM IC-PW1, 1KW rating. Evaluations very mixed and over a long time
which make me doubtful.
-ICOM IC-4KL, used. 1.5 KW, extensively automatic, ant tuner built in.
Old model few reviews.
-Avoid Alpha 9500 due to slow band change re-tuning, good tube. Mine
went very sour three times, long story. Some units change ant outputs
by itself, defying ur programming.
-Avoid Alpha 87a, used, for slow band changes and as it ages, little
plugs and sockets inside get tarnish and stop working, quirky fault
detection system.
Lower power
-SPE Expert Model 1.3K-FA, $3400, light weight, ant tuner, 4 outputs,
2 inputs, the GoTo amp for DXpeditions. Some say it will do 1.5 but
rated at ICAS 1.3 KW. Price without built in tuner is $2460. All FOB Rome.
-Elecraft KPA500, 500 watts, underpowered but small and matches K3,
external antenna tuner, now outclassed by 1.3K-FA for portable ops.
Amp with ext. tuner $3000. FOB factory.
-ICOM IC-2KL, 500watts used. Highly sought amp. for small size w.
separate p.s. and IC-500 matching automatic antenna tuner. Package of
three boxes give flexibility in portable op. Old and thus beware of
failures. (I had three complete sets for DXpedition use, sold.)
-SPE Expert 1K-FA, $2800 FOB Rome, 1 KW but very mixed reviews, some
negative may be result from running amp at over power. Caution.
-Ameritron has a large choice for SS automatic or manual, as well as
tube-type amps, some oldie-but-goodies widely used around the world.
Add your favorite.
73, Charly
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