[TenTec] Centurion experience

[Rob Atkinson, K5UJ]

I have generally been pleased with my Centurion.  It is enough amp for the 
type of operating I do.  If anything it's almost too much (wattage).   It's 
a real nice ragchew and casual dx amp.  By that I mean, if I were a serious 
contester and wall paper chaser I'd probably want some kind of 2 x 4cx800 
amp that could run at or near the limit for 48 hours of contesting.  but 
most of the time I yak with my buddies on 75 and 40 and need a boost for 
armchair copy over the noise level--it's great for that, running fairly cool 
at around 700 or 800 watts peak.  If I do a geezer transmission at 1.2 kw 
it'll get pretty hot.  There's a tradeoff for the quiet operation--reduced 
cooling but as I said earlier, for noncompetitive operating it's fine.   
Minor (to me) nits:  Somewhat reduced output on WARC bands and high input 
swr on the tuned input on 75 meters up near 4 MHz.  As you move up between 
3.95 and 4 the input swr zooms up to around 2+:1.  Pros:  Great metering, 
standard features, and I think it's built real well.
If I ever get another amp I'll keep it to have as a standby.

Rob Atkinson
K5UJ

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