[Amps] Slow start-up of Amps on CW

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Mon Mar 11 14:23:38 EDT 2024


On 3/11/2024 7:57 AM, Jeff in Mali: via Amps wrote:
> However, more and more I'm convinced that some amps are not
> instantaneous, not picking up immediately as the first letter(s) is
> (are) keyed on CW or spoken on SSB. The other night I was watchin my own
>   amp (Elecraft KPA-1500) and it seemed only to come up to full-power
> after a few characters.
> Is this a generalized phenomenon, or just my imagination?

R/T delay is quite real. When contesting, I regularly hear JA calls as 
OA. It's not me mis-copying.

73, Jim K9YC



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