The funny thing is I actually got this Spam in my email the
day after aquiring a 250 Watt Johnson Matchbox exactly when I
was wondering if I should have got the 1000 Watt instead. The
spam said "Is your johnson big enough?" and I wondered how
the heck did they knew I was thinking about that. Turns out
the spam had nothing to do with ham radio, wink wink, nudge
nudge, know what I mean?

Only thing is the KW Johnson is rather inflated pricewise
these days. I am trying to stay within a budget. I understand
that since the 250 Watt Johnson was used for AM that it could
probably handle 600 Watts of SSB or even CW, this is what I
have seen posted by perusing through Google searches. What
are the limits powerwise of this smaller Matchbox? If I want
to think about a linear amp, I may want to know my
limitations with the smaller matchbox. Are linears such that
you "select" how much power, so even if the linear is capable
of more than the matchbox, I could experiment to see how much
the matchbox would handle. I apologize for all these newbie
questions. Maybe a Collins 30L-1 would be a good companion to
the matchbox...

73

Zeno (aka Bill)