This big sissy is concerned about going from 100 watts to perhaps 500 
watts.  Suburban area - just don't want to open up a can of neighbor 
R F I worms.  But that six DB increase could be very helpful.
Pat, K9JAU
and, if people ran no more than necessary power I wouldn't be 
worrying about the neighbors!At 01:36 PM 2/26/2014, you wrote:
>I'm afraid I just don't see the point running that much power.
>
>73
>Scott
>ZL1CHM - N0HOK
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On 27/02/2014, at 4:36 AM, "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hello again Kelvin, I could name you 25 stations in the US and in other
> > countries too, that are operating with over 15 KW.  Many of the really
> > high-power stations are using custom built amps using the 4CX15000A(8281)
> > ceramic tetrodes.  I am told that these amps cost $32,000 in the auto-tune
> > version, and $24,000 in manual tune.
> >
> >
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Alan/KD7GC
> >
> >
> >