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In this condition I would imagine the swr would be awful between the radio and amp. If it is truly shorted and not floating, I wouldn't tx into it.

The amp does look like doo doo, but you didn't ask for judgement, instead for help and aside from ugly welds and questionable practices reflecting the builder, I think it could work. I don't see any burnt resistors so that's good. Maybe it originally blew up, causing the arcing marks on the heatsink, then was rebuilt into a 4 pill. I get the feeling that those are different pills than originally installed. Ditto on the impedance matching issues spoken of by Shadetree Mechanic.

[QUOTE="Cable Guy, post: 827309, member: 16662"] In this condition I would imagine the swr would be awful between the radio and amp. If it is truly shorted and not floating, I wouldn't tx into it. The amp does look like doo doo, but you didn't ask for judgement, instead for help and aside from ugly welds and questionable practices reflecting the builder, I think it could work. I don't see any burnt resistors so that's good. Maybe it originally blew up, causing the arcing marks on the heatsink, then was rebuilt into a 4 pill. I get the feeling that those are different pills than originally installed. Ditto on the impedance matching issues spoken of by Shadetree Mechanic. [/QUOTE]

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