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They released a batch of numbers from the Do-not-call deal...you will have to re-register with the do-not-call registry in order to continue not receiving calls...

Why couldn't you hose it out with electrical contact cleaner??? That's what its made for...??

Thanks Mack... At least I can have an idea of what to tell the local guy...instead of walking into it blind...he's a pretty good guy, knows FatBoy inside and out. I looked through it (visually), looked for anything touching that shouldn't be and anything physically broken (that's about the...

He said the amp was built by a local guy that's been gone for a while...

We hooked up the radio directly to the antenna...issue gone, lots of receive. Hooked up a different radio through the amp (receive only) and same deal...low or no receive. He said it actually quit receiving today, and toggling the on/off did nothing. Sitting in my driveway, with the amp in...

Thanks Beetle... The radio acts fine without the amp in the system...I'll try my radio in his truck tonight and see if that makes a difference.

A friend has a no-name 4-pill in a bright blue case...Class AB, 4x1446s...has a printed circuit board. Hooked up to a Uniden 78, running mini-8 coax into a roof-mounted Wilson 1000. When he flips the amp on (just turns it on) the RX signal drops and sometimes slowly builds back up (like...

What kind of amp???

Sounds like the errant, off-frequency, RF is possibly causing the problem?

What's the difference between a AVG watt and a PEP watt? Does one or the other actually represent the watts staying on frequency?

Thanks! I had read it was a delay, but really didn't know how that would potentially affect AM.

Just to satisfy my own curiosity, what does the SSB switch (on an amplifier) actually do? Does it have any affect on an AM transmission (say the switch accidentally gets flipped and you're still running AM, not SSB)?

Then a class A, AB, or B is what I'm looking for! That was simple enough...

I'm trying to get away from the 2-stage amplifier (I currently have a 1x2) and I'm not sure I like it...it is too sensitive, not very controllable (as SK noted, you need to run an extremely low dead key from the radio to get it set at 1:4). Freecell noted that the extra power over a straight...

See, that's what I'm looking for...clean. I think I have gotten what I need to know...now to start looking around at options.

That was going to be my next question, if you under drive the amp (at or below the rated input of the transistors)...other than a loss of "achievable" power, would a class C amp still splatter (given a clean input)?

Keep in mind, you're dealing with someone who has limited electronics experience... I have no idea what I should be looking at when you say 50Mhz...does the input change in relation to the frequency its used??? Sorry, AVG...RMS is a hold over from my stereo days...

No worries...I don't have the box to fry! I'm just trying to understand this whole thing...the 4x1446 was just an example... Just trying to understand how a transistor can have a 7 watt rated input, but yet they tend to get driven with much more in actual use. For example, a 1x4 box has a...

So... A 4-pill box with 1446 transistors should be driven at 28 watts (4 units at 7 input watts)? I assume that is an RMS input?

What are the input drives for the common pills like the 1446, 2290, and 2879?? How do you figure the input requirements of multiple pill amps with these pills? Do you multiply the input drive of the pill by the number of pills?