Send it in - sounds just like the sort of simple 'weekend' article
several technical editors have been asking for.

btw.  By LCL output stage, assume you mean a lowpass Tee network?

Andy G4JNT
www.scrbg.org/g4jnt

 design
> and build our own equipment, but do not submit it for possible publication
> because, state of the art technology it is not, the design is not
> particularly elegant, and the Technical Editor and the more accomplished
> contributors would fall over laughing when they saw it. But most of these
> projects are practical and they work. I work on the KISS (Keep It Simple
> Stupid) principle, don't use three components when one will work just as
> well. My 500kHz TX does not have any fancy CW sidetone circuit on transmit,
> just a piezo buzzer wired across the keyed 12v line to the driver board, the
> most complicated bit is the LCL output stage, which delivers 23W into a
> 50ohm dummy load and 900mA up the antenna, the TX/RX switching is like the
> old days, a simple toggle switch.


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