[CQ-Contest] Elecraft KPA 1500

[Jim Brown]

On 3/6/2020 1:33 PM, Edward Sawyer wrote:
> Who wants to be tapping things every 20khz?

It's a one time thing when you start using the amp -- you train the 
tuner to your antennas, then when you TX on a frequency it recalls the 
settings you've trained. And it can remember 3 settings for each output 
for each band, so you can switch antennas external to the amp and the 
amp will follow.

Yes, the range of the amp is SWR at the output connector. The tuner 
typically burns 0.5-0.8 dB, and the power meter internal to the amp is 
between output stage and tuner. I read power with and without tuner with 
an LP100A (which reads true power) a few feet of coax downstream of the 
output connector.

73, Jim K9YC