PGXL April 2019 Updates

Burch - K4QXX

For all you people waiting for the amp, the wait is worth it.  I've only had mine on the air since Sunday and I love it.  Like shooting fish in a barrel making contacts.

Tom WM0L

ordered mine 05/22/2017  ...  I was offer mine a couple weeks ago and passed till August 2019.  

KF4HR

Asher - K0AU

PGXL order number AB-14093 on 10/12/17. No rush. My Alpha is doing fine.

KF4HR

After my first year of waiting I purchased an Alpha 87A.  Great amp, just the 3 minute warmup can be a minor hassle on occasion. 

If this Forum is an indication it sounds like only a few PG-XL's were shipped out over the last coupe of months, although K6LJ mentioned he saw several at the factory, so I wonder what's up with that.  Hopefully we'll get a new PG-XL update from Gerald or Matt soon.

My wait continues...

Bill -VA3WTB

I have a feeling that the members on the community are not the only ones waiting...

Mark_WS7M

Neal Pollack, N6YFM

mikeatthebeach .

Maybe Mark is trying to work a guy next to a Solar Array RFI generator or **** **** Farmer And need to get over S9+10db Noise Floor Hi ! Hi! Many Chinese DX stations on FT8 have no ears It those Noisy RFI LED lights and sometimes 1500watts is not enough !! 73 Mike

Neal Pollack, N6YFM

Ah, so true :-)

Rick N4RZ

I've owned both the SPE 2K-FA and the OM 4000A.  I decided to sell one in order to purchase a PGXL, that I am still waiting for. I decided to keep the 2K-FA.  The 2K-FA is more automatic and easy to use than the 4000A.  With the 4000A you must manually tune it up on each sub-band you wish to use it on and it remembers the settings for the next time it is operated on that frequency.  The 2K-FA tunes itself and can adapt to a changing antenna load. The 2K-FA has three different power levels that you can set up and easily switch between although only two can be used for FT8 since the amp isn't designed to transmit continuously in MAX mode for over about 10 seconds at a time.  The OM will easily transmit 3.0 KW on FT8 and over 4.0 KW on CW/SSB.   However, if you want to limit your power to 300 watts it is a more involved change than just reducing your drive power.  The friend I sold my 4000A to reduced his drive and ran the amp on FT8 at 300 watts The results were that in less than three months he had problems with the amp that led to him sending it off to ArraySolutions.  They determined that the finals needed to be replaced and told him that the amp should always be run at the legal limit or more to prevent premature tube failure. 
 

Bill -VA3WTB

FT8 is a high power low signal mode. But lots of fun can be had with low power as well.

KF4HR

Ray - K6LJ

Sure my PG-XL is working great. Only one thing to note. Received a beta 3.2.4 version of firmware for the PG-XL Ion order to get the pg meter in sdr to work.

KF4HR

Burt Fisher

I wonder if anyone died waiting? Did anyone opt out when called? Could you give your place in line to a friend?

K5UFO

Ordered 12/3/2017, AB-14429, K5UFO, Markus Thomerson

David-N5PSM

When did they tell you it would ship?

K5UFO

Their best guess was approximately 3 months

Joseph

Sergey KN7K

Bill -VA3WTB

David-N5PSM

I have the same experience.  The last I was told (1 month ago) was 4th quarter of 2019
If we complain or point out our vendors lack of performance or communication then we are labeled "bad customers" by many  of our colleagues in this forum.  When I compare with other vendors I get very discouraged.   So I am just waiting patiently for the greatest amp ever made.

Pat N6PAT

I would not be too concerned about what others in this forum call you.  Don't let anyone intimidate you.

This forum is provided to allow Flex owners to express and share their opinions and experiences be they positive or negative.

Joseph

Bill -VA3WTB

Joseph

Bill -VA3WTB

When Gerald was playing with SDR as a project, It was a few years before he started his company, Called Flex Radio. And he kept developing Power SDR.

Bill -VA3WTB

David-N5PSM