Over the next week or so I will be listing several items on behalf of a good Ham Radio friend of mine. He has provided me with the descriptions of all the equipment and any associated issues and wherever possible, I have confirmed this by testing the gear on my bench.

In this auction you are bidding for a useful little 2m power amplifier. It is a Microset R50 that has an input of 1-3W and a power output of 50W. Includes a switchable GaasFET preamp for receive and RF switching with a selectable delay.

Great to boost the output of a handheld 2m radio if you want to use it mobile. I should mention that the 12V DC power lead is a bit short, but it could easily be extended for your particular application.

Now the small print – my terms and conditions………..

As always, I am happy to ship worldwide and will provide quotes for international carriage on request. Postage within the UK will cost GBP £7.

All items leave me having been checked to confirm that they match the auction description and everything is always extremely well packed. Occasionally the postal service messes-up and a parcel gets damaged. In these cases, I will process an insurance claim promptly on your behalf and you will receive a refund when I receive the insurance payment – that is the whole point of insurance. I keep a record of the serial numbers on all electrical equipment I sell and discretely security-mark items where necessary to protect myself against the fraudsters who try to send back their own faulty gear having bought mine as a replacement!

For UK bidders, payment methods are PayPal, cheque, postal order or direct bank transfer (cheques take one whole week to clear thanks to my bank operating in the Dark Ages). PayPal is the preferred payment option for bidders outside the UK. Bidders are always welcome to collect from me personally, in which case, cash on collection works fine, but I may ask for a deposit to be paid at the end of auction.

At the end of auction, I will send the winning bidder an Ebay invoice within 24 hours. Contact will then be expected within 2 days and payment must be received within 7 days from the end of auction unless prior arrangements have been made. Of course if you already know the carriage cost, immediate payment via PayPal is fine.

If I haven’t heard from you or received payment within the specified times above, the item will be re-listed and Ebay’s non-paying bidder process followed. You will also be blocked from bidding on any further auctions of mine. Not paying because you were suddenly called away on business and the person you asked at home to deal with everything was rushed into hospital with an in-growing toenail is not a valid excuse! I normally reply to questions and messages from winning bidders within 24 hours, so if you haven’t heard from me it will be because your email hasn’t got through and not because I have suddenly decided to trash all my Ebay business and disappear off the Planet!

And finally…..I am always happy to answer questions from potential bidders, but please check first that the answer isn’t already in the listing. Messages are much easier to read if you use a mixture of capital letters and lower case, with a bit of punctuation thrown-in here and there. And if you can make it coherent, that would be great :-)