[Amps] Fwd: Amps Digest, Vol 172, Issue 39

[Tom Osborne]

But you can only figure that price per watt if you are running it at 4000
watts.  Figure price again st legal limit!  73
Tom W7WHY

On Apr 23, 2017 5:42 PM, "Roger (K8RI)" <k8ri at rogerhalstead.com> wrote:

> The new autotune 4000 @ $7500, will do 4500 for $1.67 per watt. The manual
> tune version is even cheaper, BUT if you keep 'em legal they look pretty
> expensive.
>
> As for spending money on ham gear, as I can no longer fly, the airplanes
> are gone. They are expensive even when you don't fly. Hangar rent and
> insurance would purchase a really nice station. 14 gallons of $6.00 gas per
> hour = $84 for gas per hour.  So, I'm saving a LOT of money.
>
> Ham radio, photography, and computers are now my only outlet so when I
> purchase a top end rig (doesn't happen very often), my wife just sighs.
> OTOH for some reason, computer purchases ring an alarm bell with her.
> Photography? Not so much. Maybe it's because of the photos of the birds and
> flower around the yard?
>
> 73, Roger (K8RI)
>
> On 4/21/2017 3:41 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
>>
>> > OM-2000+   2,000 Watts   $3.379.00
>>
>> At the US legal limit, it's $2.25/Watt. It's also a tube amp
>> while you show/compare it against the list of solid state amps.
>>
>> Cathy, the PW-1 is a 1000W amplifier per Icom's own Instruction
>> Manual.  You list it as 1500W.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>    ... Joe, W4TV
>>
>>
>> On 4/21/2017 1:30 PM, Jay Terleski wrote:
>>
>>> ​Price
>>> t of Watts
>>> ​ from OM Powre Cathy, to add to your list.​
>>>
>>> OM-2000+   2,000 Watts   $3.379.00
>>> That is $1.69 / Watt Cathy.
>>>
>>> Jay, WX0B
>>>
>>>
>>> Jay Terleski
>>> Array Solutions
>>> 214 954 7140
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Price of solid-state amps:
>>>>
>>>> Ameritron ALS-600, 500 watts, about $1400
>>>> ACOM 600, 600 watts, about $2800
>>>> Elecraft KPA-500, 500 watts, about $3000
>>>> Elecraft KPA-1500, 1500 watts, about $6000
>>>> ICOM PW-1, 1500 watts, about $4900
>>>>
>>>> Cost per watt:  $2.80 - $6.00
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So it's still not practical to get the same performance *at the same
>>>> price* from
>>>> solid state power amplifiers.  It will come, but it's not there yet.
>>>>
>>>> You can quibble with the choices of amps that I picked to make the
>>>> point,
>>>> but
>>>> I don't think you can refute the core argument.
>>>>
>>>> 73,
>>>> Cathy
>>>> N5WVR
>>>>
>>>>
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