Picked up an Icom PW-1 1kW linear amplifier at a ham swap on the weekend. 1.8 - 54 MHz, 35 watts drive for 1000 watts out. It uses 8 MRF150 FETs. Just ran it through its paces into a dummy load and it is all good. First contact on the air was to Slovenia on 20 meters.
Also ran into Mr Carlson - he would have been more impressed if the linear was tube based
I was going to head out there, but alas the lawn mowing/patio pressure washing was more urgent; given it was the first decent weekend since last september
Was the best swap I've been too in quite some time - depending on what you're looking for of course. I didn't run across any Nixie tubes but did find some nice looking chassis mount K connectors, and many other quality connectors, even some low thermal EMF stuff. There were many deals on HF rigs which isn't too common.
I've had great weather many weekends so far this year, maybe it is sunnier in Langley
Mr Carlson was pretty funny, he was sitting behind a table working the crowd the entire time, no shortage of people wanting to say hi to him. I threatened a picture but he hid his face.