I just went to an estate sale. There sat a 1.5kfx. The guy running the sale asked what I was willing to pay for it. I said I didn't know since they were out of business. At that he said, "You know, I'm so tired of hearing that they are out of business and if there's problems I can't get it fixed!!. Will you give me $100.00 for it?!" At which point I could not get the money out of my pocket fast enough. I figured if it was broken I'd at least have 100 bucks worth of parts. Well it isn't broken. Puts out 1KW as advertised. Just got done setting the ALC and making the Icom cable for it. This stuff never happens to me. If there was a 500 ticket drawing and I bought 499 of them they'd draw the other guys ticket. I also picked up 2 $400.00 antennas for $45.00 and a pile of LMR-400 for $60.00. WOW! Amp works great!