[Amps] What is wrong with my Alpha?

[Gudguyham at aol.com]

Bill, some radios especially ICOMS "overshoot" and the Alpha's particularly  
go off on fault.  Not sure what tube the 89 uses, but most of the time the  
Alpha tetrode amps are prone to this because you need to back the drive off from 
 100 watts, many ICOM radios overshoot for the first dit or syllable and then 
go  to the desired output.  A friend of mine had this problem some time ago  
with his ICOM radio, but ICOM said nothing wrong with radio.  I would  suspect 
"overshoot" as your problem.  Lou 
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