Are they talking about Peak Envelope Power?  It would be a shame to make such an expensive radio and it can not reach full rated P.E.P.
Or does the acronym mean something else?

Guy's,
      I have a older 745 great performer and solid rig,excell comdition.
I need some of the typical repairs. I have the new memory card and need to send t away for other tweaking.

Anyone have any working history with MTS out of toledo WA? I have purchased his board and thinking of sending it off to him for my repairs.
Should I sink another 135.00 with shipping in this rig or sell and move on?
Please keep in mind I am working on a tight budget..
Thank you any insight ..
73's
Rick

Have a look at Yaesu's site.  Seem of the radios listed there are discontinued, and some of their radios that have come out in the past year are not even listed yet.  Apparently they do not take their own web site very seriously.

I posted this in the DX forum as well. I'm going to Cuba in a few weeks with an art group and am intending to bring an Elecraft KX1 to operate while there. Is anyone aware of any restrictions I would have to deal with?

I worked on the re-wiring of the power supply can cap.  Two sections had been replaced with modern electrolytics under the chassis, a 20uf and a 33uf but I couldn't find the other 20uf section.

After staring at the mess of wires under the old can cap, I discovered they had left one section connected, however, it was bad.  I paralleled a 20uf over it, brought up the variac to about 30volts and the dial lamps started to glow

That's good enough for now.  Next step checking for out of spec resistors and leaky caps.  There's a bunch of black beauties in there, they get replaced anyway.

Really, the FT-950 is no longer available. You might want to check that again. Maybe you were thinking of the FT-2000???

Thanks! I like him already - his work bench looks almost as cluttered as my reloading bench! 

I'd really like to find someone local, but if it has to shipped, this looks like the guy.

Thanks to all who replied to my original post.  I sent the radio back to HRO and they said they couldn't find anything wrong with it and sent it right back to me.  It works perfectly for 5-10 minutes then it stops transmitting, no power reading on my power meter.  Seems to shutdown sooner if i run it on high power.  SWR is nearly a 1:1 match, no more then 1.2:1.  I'm wondering if HRO really did check it out or just plugged it up and ran it for a few minutes and sent it back .  Has anyone had any luck dealing with Yaesu service department?  When I send it back to HRO its on my dime (and not cheap), does Yaesu cover postage for warranty repairs?  This is definitely my first and last HRO purchase and possibly my last Yaesu purchase if this doesn't get resolved...

Who is Kenwood Cliff?

Never any complaints about my K3 on SSB transmit.  To the OP:  Only you can decide what you want in a new radio.  If you are looking for a drop-in replacement of the TS-570, I'd also advocate the TS-590S, K3, and the TT Eagle be considered.  

I'm sick and tired of people pointing to the "Sherwood numbers" blindly.  This is one set of tests that measures very specific things that, although they are indicative of the performance of the radios under a variety of conditions, they also might not matter a bit to the average ham.  Sherwood himself also admits in a separate document that differences of as much as a couple of dB are probably statistically insignificant.  For most hams, the radios in the top half of the Sherwood list have perfectly acceptable receivers.  If you have big antennas, wish to operate during contests, or work DX on the low bands, then you need to start thinking about the upper quartile or decile.  Otherwise, having a clean transmitter and good reliability/spare parts are more important than having the top receiver.

Of course, I can take close-up photos and draw diagrams.  I may yet have to do this.  The radio does not have any reception on the highest band.  The others seem to be working ok.