I'm looking for a 10 watt in, minimum 100 w out
all mode 6m amp with a preamp. The only one I've
found is the Mirage A-1015-G for about $390.

Are there cheaper options out there?

Ken KG0WX


You may want to do what I did . I had an older ssb/am rig and that amp
a
few years back . Sold them both off and went with an Icom 706. That
gave
me an all mode rig and 100 watts out on 6 meters plus everything else
but
the 220 band as a stand by rig. I already had a good 2 meter and 432
mhz
seperate setup. A new Icom is not that much more than the amp and rig.



That's a sensible idea but it goes against what I want.
Up untill a few months ago I had an FT-857D. Radio
worked great but now it's been replaced by the following
setup:

Yaesu FT-840 ($250) with seperate dipoles for every HF band,
Kenwood TM-271A with a Hustler CG-144 @ 42',
Yaesu FT-690RII with a temp inverted V @ 10',
Yaesu VX-2R for 440 TX & general wide band RX,
Radio Shack Pro-94A for trunking & general scanning.

You see, instead of one radio to do everything but only one
thing at a time, I can do many things all at once. Sure, I've
lost 144/440 SSB but they wern't that important to me.

Ken I was referring to just using the Icom on 6 meters. I have seperate
rigs for several bands but decided to replace the 6 meter only rig and amp
with the Icom. That gave me 100 watts instead of 150 watts out and also if
I want to use the Icom for other bands if one of the other rigs craps out I
can. Just because the Icom does everything does not mean that you can not
just use it for a single band. Also not that you want to use it for FM but
with lots of 6 meter repeaters going tone control I don't think that you can
set but one tone at a time on the 690. I don't have one of those but do
have the 440 mhz version I bought many years ago.