any updates on you all running kl203 amp

RM Italy amps aint to common in OTR,and with their history it makes for a long read if you do abit of research.

There are several others that are time tested and worth the coin drop.
If its Palomar with "Elite" run from those as well.

 

Cheap Enough! I would run it till it pops for $39.00
There is more to running power then just "watts"
But the old rule still applies,clean in - clean out

 

But not with 99.999% of Class C CB amps Clean in = Dirt out ......

 

You obviously don't know what you're talking about and are only repeating the "bad data" you've read or heard online. A Class-C properly driven with a clean radio will talk as clean as any Class AB1 amp as heard by the normal human ear. This is especially true on AM and to a lesser extent on SSB. Don't speak to what you have no idea about.

 

If you're able to set your dead key to 1 watt, that little amp will be happy. Anything over 2 watts is overdriving, and they'll do full rated output on AM with 1 watt in. I've got one in my service van, and after watching its performance on a spectrum analyzer, I've been able to confirm its good performance.
"Swing" on AM is an overrated goal to try to achieve. An averaging wattmeter should show little or no change with modulation on AM. Four watts on AM with modulation and only one watt without is, by definition, overmodulating. Besides, seeing 4 watts frequently on that little amp when it's running in AM will kill it. When I put my driving radio on 1 watt but let it "swing" to two watts, its bandwidth was about 140 KHz on peaks. If you recall that CB channels are typically 10 KHz apart, and a properly modulated AM signal takes up about 6 KHz (tops), it will show that it does. 140 KHz "occupied bandwidth" is 7 channels up and down from where you're dialed up.
And a two-watt deadkey didn't produce any more power *on frequency* than one did; the final stage is already saturated with a fraction over one watt.

It'd be a shame to make it into a $50 fuse.

-- Handlebar --

p.s. For a lot of real-world experience by a lot of frequent users, try looking it up on cbtricks(daht)com. There are a lot of highly experienced full time technicians who deal with CB as well as commercial radio over there. Just a thought.

 

Judging from other threads here I'd have to say he knows a helluva lot more than you do so go sit down and learn something.