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Old February 9th 08, 03:18 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
David[_5_] David[_5_] is offline
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Default Power amps/watts consumption query?

wrote:
Thanks for that Lamont.
The device is a transceiver and the power usage on:
Transmit is 850VA and on
Receive is 210VA

Yikes! That's worse than a desktop computer. Do you generate your own
electricity?

You might as well get an R-390A using 250 Watts to listen to the radio.
Zounds!