Could be, but I like amps with lots of head room.  I have a Henry 5K now,
and will likely get the Henry 8K Ultra that a friend has offered to me, and
I have been offered a super deal on the OM Power OM4000, plus an old fellow
I knew back at MIT died recently and his son asked me if I had any interest
in his dad's homebrew HF amplifier, and when he told me that it was built
around the 4CX10,000D, I told him to ship it to me as quickly as possible.
As I said, I like lots of amp head room, Hi, Hi.

Alan/KD7GC


Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Dresser
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 12:43 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: need to find a replacement radio

Isn't that a bit like using an 800 horsepower engine to drive a go-cart?

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 13:27
Subject: Re: need to find a replacement radio


> To avoid splatter when using an amp, it is much better to have a big amp
> with lots more power than the legal limit.  If you only drive a big amp so
> that it achieves about 1500 watts out,, when the amp is capable of much
> more, you won't have to worry about splatter.  My 5K for instance, can
> achieve over 4900 watts out at max drive of 200 watts, but if I only drive
> it with about 30 or 35 watts for 1500 watts out, the signal is clean as a
> whistle.
>
> 73
>
>
>
> Alan R. Downing
> Phoenix, AZ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Steve Dresser
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:20 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Fw: need to find a replacement radio
>
> Butch,
>
> I'm not using ALC, but I do try to run my 590 at around 60 watts when 
> using
> my AL811H because I've been told that when I run higher power, I splatter.
> I'm probably not getting every ounce of power out of the amplifier that 
> way,
>
> but I'm also not getting death threats for having a dirty signal.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 12:19
> Subject: Re: need to find a replacement radio
>
> The 590 does have a spike issue, but it really hasn't caused the problems
> everyone thinks it does.  Some amps with very sensative protection 
> circuits
> kick off and so forth.  Other radios out there are much worse, but for 
> some
> reason, everyone has jumped on the 590.  BTW, Kenwood is supposed to be
> coming out with a hardware fix.  I've run my
> 590 with my metron solid state amp as well as my alpha with no problems
> 73
> Butch WA0VJR Node 3148 Wallace, ks.
>