I've been in the market lately for an amp specifically for use with my Hermes Lite 2 and had been considering one of these Chinese 150-watt amps...but today's informal announcement/leak has me excited about this latest product from Kenny KM3KM.
The Mercury Lite will be a 600w solid state amp with a selectable level of input attenuation, enabling it to provide its full output with 5-10 watts in or from a 40w input. And it has received FCC Acceptance.
- Internal Automatic Tuner for 3.5 Mhz – 54 Mhz (Ham Bands)
- RF Auto Band Decoding
- 5-inch Color Touch Screen
- 2 x MRF300 LDMOS
- 600 Watts all Modes
- Input Power 5-40 Watts FWD/REF/SWR Meter
- Supply Voltage / DI Current Meter All Protections
- W 7 x L 11.5 x H 4.5 Inch / Weight 14 Pounds FCC Approved
I believe this will be a great match for the Hermes Lite 2 and similar rigs. I remain super-impressed with my HL2 - the more I use it, the more I like it. To be able to use it as a 100-600 watt radio will be icing on the cake.
The Mercury Lite manual is available here (925k pdf).
As I think about a possible power supply for this amp, I think a battery makes the most sense rather than another big clunky thing that plugs into the wall - pure DC, no heat or noise generated and totally immune to power line surges or outages.
And allows portability of the amp for activating that rare grid.
A 48V 20AH LiFePO4 costs about $200 on Amazon. Should last a good long time on CW and SSB (not so much with digital modes).
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