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I own one and use it on the ham bands it really isnt a bad amp at all for the money also mine is a new one and it does work on 11 meters I tested that for the hell of it when I got bored. I was a broadcast engineer for 30 years so I do know a little of something.

To start off with the amp will do about 350 watts really clean push it beyond that it starts to get dirty. The book says 15 watts in 300 out mine does about 270 with a voltage drop of about half a volt under load. In ssb mode drive it with about 25 watts and you should see about 400 out pep cant drive it much hard the protection circuit kicks in and shuts it down. Remember for every volt of voltage drop under load you lose on average 70 to 85 watts of output. Run it at 350 watts out and it will last years and run clean at the same time.

It is well constructed and runs pretty cool is it worth the money yes

<blockquote data-quote="James Mackinlay" data-source="post: 617504" data-attributes="member: 51879">I own one and use it on the ham bands it really isnt a bad amp at all for the money also&nbsp; mine is a new one and it does work on 11 meters I tested that for the hell of it when I got bored. I was a broadcast engineer for 30 years so I do know a little of something.To start off with the amp will do about 350 watts really clean push it beyond that it starts to get dirty. The book says 15 watts in 300 out mine does about 270 with a voltage drop of about half a volt under load. In ssb mode drive it with about 25 watts and you should see about 400 out pep cant drive it much hard the protection circuit kicks in and shuts it down. Remember for every volt of voltage drop under load you lose on average 70 to 85 watts of output. Run it at 350 watts out and it will last years and run clean at the same time.It is well constructed and runs pretty cool is it worth the money yes</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Mackinlay, post: 617504, member: 51879"] I own one and use it on the ham bands it really isnt a bad amp at all for the money also mine is a new one and it does work on 11 meters I tested that for the hell of it when I got bored. I was a broadcast engineer for 30 years so I do know a little of something. To start off with the amp will do about 350 watts really clean push it beyond that it starts to get dirty. The book says 15 watts in 300 out mine does about 270 with a voltage drop of about half a volt under load. In ssb mode drive it with about 25 watts and you should see about 400 out pep cant drive it much hard the protection circuit kicks in and shuts it down. Remember for every volt of voltage drop under load you lose on average 70 to 85 watts of output. Run it at 350 watts out and it will last years and run clean at the same time. It is well constructed and runs pretty cool is it worth the money yes [/QUOTE]

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