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March 18, 2024. A Bad Experience ... and not a St Patrick's Day Hangover


As advertised by Amazon 1.6 Watts @ 12VDC good to 512MHz. 

Believe what you read from purchaser comments! Too bad I read the comment from WA5BDU after it was in my hands!

(With a name like Nick Kennedy (WA5BDU) he might be Irish and a well-known ham homebrewer. He has published a very understandable piece on homebrewing Crystal Filters.)

I will not denigrate the above amp by calling it a piece of Crap, but I had terrible experience with trying to make it work. More than 6VDC and it oscillates and the most I got out of it was about 500milliwatts on 20M. The $18 price was like a siren's song that resulted in a shipwreck!

With no time to scratch build things I have been making small purchases from Amazon of built boards in hopes of fabricating rigs using purchased modules. So, learn from my sad experience -- avoid purchasing this unit. 

If it seems almost too good to be true, 100% of the time it isn't true.



73's
Pete N6QW

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