[Amps] Available Class A in Yaesu

[Jerry Kaidor]

> I don't know. You tell me.
>
> I just know that if you run the Mark V at less than 75 Watts (full
> power) out in Class A, things get really really hot and things let out
> all their smoke and things don't work any more.

*** How about this:  The power input to the stage is the same with drive
and without drive.  But with drive, some of that power is coupled to the
antenna.  Without drive, ALL of it is dissipated by the device itself.

                       - Jerry Kaidor, KF6VB