Your 5KW example is RMS voltage and peak would be 707v. I am not sure how much moderate SWR effect this value but clearly the 1000v Alpha Delta discharge tube should be adequate for an Elecraft KPA-500 unless the SWR is horrible.
John KK9A From: K4TAX Date: Sat Feb 24 19:46:55 EST 2018 Based on the specification of 500 volts peak, 5KW at 50 ohms = 500 volts. It would seem the PL-259 is adequate for ham radio applications per specification to 0.3 GHZ or 300 MHz without issues. Of course one is dealing with 50 ohms, which implies essentially a 1:1 SWR. 73 Bob, K4TAX ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
