[Amps] What type of amplifier is best

[Al Kozakiewicz]

I have a 998 that I use with a G5RV at home, which is basically a temporary QTH until we sell the house.  The good stuff is at the lake house.

I can tell you that I have smoked the OEM bypass capacitors that are across the outputs of that tuner on multiple occasions with a mere 500W out.  Probably from trying to load the G5RV at the low end of the 10M band.

If/when I ever hook that thing up to my AL-1500, I'm going to be damn sure that any antenna connected to it is at least in the ballpark resonance-wise.

Al
AB2ZY

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From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [amps-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Blaine [keepwalking188 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:57 AM
To: Charles Harpole; sre.1966 at gmail.com; amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] What type of amplifier is best

Charles,

I have the 998 and used it for quite a long time in RTTY contesting when I was running non-resonant antennas.  In one case I had
loaded 1KW on 160m to run the 160m ARRL CW contest - the antenna tied to it was a loaded 80m dipole.  I abused it quite heavily and
only had one problem related to poor soldering of the toroids to the main PCB.

For the price, I think it's a very good value.  Albeit with the usual MFJ cautions to check the soldering work for the hand-assembly
part - same as with all the other MFJ gear...

73, Jeff ACØC
www.ac0c.com