Martin, 200 watts - 250watts only gives you 3dB advantage over the 100W. That's not even one S unit or figure it is BARELY a perceptible difference on the other end. CB linear? Those are for the 11 meter band... what bands are you using? I'd say as a general rule figure you need at least 300W -400W to be worth messing with it and another general rule is $1 per watt is what it costs, more/less as a minimum -- and is your tuner and antenna able to handle the power increase you end up with?
In fact, you may merit what you need just by improving your antenna. If you want to embark on some homebrew work, which could be very educational, you might try buying one of those FET linear amplifiers at the board level and a surplus 50 volt 50amp ($50?) power supply-- search that on eBay. You still need output filters and you can build those yourself. Maybe build one for your favorite band and go onward from there. You'll have to know what you're doing but maybe like we did in the old days, roll your own and take pride in having done it. Take your time and learn. OTOH there are lots of old tube linears that need repair out there you might get cheap, and consider doing that -- again learning is your friend. Amateur Radio tube amplifiers are some of the simplest and easiest (and most dangerous) circuits you can learn about and work on -- almost more like plumbing than electronics. If you are not in a hurry, you can do this. 😊 ROD/ W5IE Rod Neumann cell: (832)444-0192 ALLogic Inc. / AdorStore PO Box 217 New Ulm, TX 78950 On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:22 PM Martin Blaise via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > I see things on eBay for ham amplifiers such as yaesu and American. Most > are $500 and up and that is not in my budget. I also see things like > Palomar ham and cb linears around $100. I am not looking to have a kw. I > would just like to try to get to 200 or 250 watts as opposed to 100 watts. > I assume all cb amps are junk. I am curious though as to how many watts > those $100 amps put out and whether anyone has tried them with an hf > transceiver. Any suggestions > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > Radio,Radio,Radio We are a radio Club! > Talk it up! On the air about every event, every meeting, every net, every > time, talk about the club, ham fests, events and people. > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] >
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