how would it hurt the radio?  if it is a 100w radio it should be fine at 100w even on fm  otherwise they would  have it set to only allow slower power level. Perhaps you a re thinking of am, where emost radios do not work well if ou try to run too much power on am? Unless you are planning to put a brick on the ptr and  leave it transmitting for an hour, I have never in my ham career heard of a radio that could be damaged by running it’s full output on any mode for anything close to reasonable use. Obviously you would not use any ham rig as a full time repeater at full output, but I doubt you are planning to put up your own 10m fm repeater using the ts480. My ts2000 doesn’t break a sweat at full output power in fm mode even if I talk for a very very long time, and I have used mine to replace a broken repeater link between a local vhf and uhf repeater during a net, and have talked for a very long time on 10 fm at full output as well, and the radio barely goes to high cool on it’s fan. Consiering  ken wood makes a 200w version of the 480, I doubt even the 100w version would break  a sweat at full power fm operation even fi you did use the peverbail brick on the key..

Michael Thurman
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On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Don Breda <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ok great! That makes sense  I guess.  Didn't want to have to do that but
> will consult the manual.
> 
> It doesn't remember the power level on a band by band basis it just
> stays where you left set it except for 6 meters I believe.
> 
> Strange it would allow you to run 100 watts on 10 meter fm for example
> when that is clearly supposed to hurt the radio.
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> Don
> 
> 
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> Don Breda <[log in to unmask]>