Pacific Antenna’s 40 meter 10 watt amp – a bust

I had a great time building the NorCal 40B and I have made contacts with the little ~2 watts output.  However , it needs a little more punch to get out of my attic and to contact other than parks.  Enter the 10 watt Pacific Antenna amp.  I have not commented on this to date because if I have issues with a product I tend to look deeply within to see what mistakes I have made before pointing the finger elsewhere.  My kit build track record has been good other than an obvious bonehead mistake on the TR-25 build (which was quickly remedied by great customer service).

As a retired accountant with very little test equipment trouble shooting is not always the easiest.  An amp is so simple one would think getting it operational would be easy.  Well not in this case.  I have gotten through some issues, but the thing is just not stable.  I reached out to the company early on with my first problem (which I have sorted).  PACIFIC ANTENNA HAS NO CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!  So far I have nothing but a PCB headed to the recycle bin.