I sounds like your amplifier may be spurious. Your watt meter may be reading 15 watts, but not all the power being read is on the output frequency. Watt meters are broad banded, you need to look at the output of the amplifier on a spectrum analyzer.
73, Joe, K1ike va...@securenet.net wrote: > Gents > > I inserted a small 20 watt PA after the TX port on our Hamtronics > REP-200 UHF machine. > > Repeater puts out 7 watts into my Termaline after all the filtering etc. > >