[CQ-Contest] MLA-2500 as a contest amp?

[David Pruett]

At 09:59 AM 6/3/2006, Shelby Summerville wrote:
>David Pruett wrote: " Not many other units will deliver a contest-grade
>1000W with 160M, and do it in a 44 pound box that can be made to fit into a
>suitcase."
>
>Having just sold an MLA-2500, unless I'm getting considerably weaker, in my
>advanced age, I'm positive the one I sold far exceeded 44 pounds? It had
>worked fine, since 1985, in a "casual" contest environment, never exceeding
>1KW, or seldom, if ever, more than 6 hours at a time.

I took that number right out of the amp's operating manual.  And I know 
that when mine was in a Pelican case (about 23 pounds by itself), the whole 
thing was under the 70 pound limit that the airlines used in the 90s, so I 
think it's pretty close.

Dave