On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:46:33 -0500, "Ralph Mowery"
wrote:


I have a Heath SB-200 amp that's behaving badly.
It works just fine on 80m through 15m, putting
out over 750 Watts PEP on 80m and 600 Watts PEP
on 15m. On 10m, it's not working right at all.
Instead of the plate current dipping at maximum
output, it's peaking at maximum output, and it's
very low when off resonance. This is just the
opposite of what I'd expect, and of what happens
on the other four bands. Maximum output on 10m
is only about 150 Watts PEP, with 100 Watts of

While probably not the problem, some later modle Heathkit amps were made so
they would not operate on 10 meters. You have to change some wiring around
the input tuned circuits or filtering.

I seem to recall it was around '78 or '79 when they stopped selling
amps that were 10 meters capable, right out of the box.

Bob
k5qwg

Not sure exectlly what, but a friend
of mine had to do this and he was telling me about it. All that junk about
not making amps that would work in and around the CB frequencies.