{"id":4048,"date":"2025-04-14T05:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2025-04-14T05:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:34:20","slug":"pacific-antennas-40-meter-10-watt-amp-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=4048","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Antenna’s 40 meter 10 watt amp – a bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a great time building the NorCal 40B and I have made contacts with the little ~2 watts output. \u00a0However , it needs a little more punch to get out of my attic and to contact other than parks. \u00a0Enter the 10 watt Pacific Antenna amp. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0My kit build track record has been good other than an obvious bonehead mistake on the TR-25<\/a> build (which was quickly remedied by great customer service).<\/p>\n

As a retired accountant with very little test equipment trouble shooting is not always the easiest. \u00a0An amp is so simple one would think getting it operational would be easy. \u00a0Well not in this case. \u00a0I have gotten through some issues, but the thing is just not stable. \u00a0I reached out to the company early on with my first problem (which I have sorted). \u00a0PACIFIC ANTENNA HAS NO CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! \u00a0So far I have nothing but a PCB headed to the recycle bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a great time building the NorCal 40B and I have made contacts with the little ~2 watts output. \u00a0However , it needs a little more punch to get out of my attic and to contact other than parks. \u00a0Enter the 10 watt Pacific Antenna amp. \u00a0I have not commented on this to date\u2026 Continue Reading ‘Pacific Antenna’s 40 meter 10 watt amp – a bust’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}