[Amps] Defining CCS

[Rob Atkinson]

A manufacturer could make an amp for hams that is N watts CCS.  But it
would be big, heavy and noisy and cost at least $10,000.  And it would
not have any bells and whistles.  Today's ham wants a little box he
can lift with one hand, sits there on the table next to his plastic
radio, doesn't make any noise, and he can flip a switch to turn it on
and it automagically does everything else for him.  And he wants all
that for half what a CCS amp would cost.  Manufacturers would be out
of business if all they did was make a CCS amp for ham--they make what
90% of hams want.  But, "100 watts CCS" won't sell them so they work
out specification tricks to sell.  It works and that's the way it is
in the commercial ham equipment manufacturing business.  And they all
do it, even the much vaunted Alpha.  This is why those who know,
homebrew.  This has been going on for decades.  Back in the late 1960s
:  2000 WATTS!!!*

Rob
K5UJ


*p.e.p. input power