Disclosed is an output overvoltage protection circuit for a power
amplifier having a plurality of stages, which comprises a monitor circuit
for monitoring an output overvoltage of an output transistor in the final
stage of the power amplifier and allowing a current to flow therethrough
in response to the monitored output overvoltage, and a current mirror
circuit for supplying a current proportional to the current from the
monitor circuit in such a manner that the base bias of the first-stage
transistor of the power amplifier is reduced in response to the current
supplied from the current mirror circuit, to reduce the output of the
final-stage output transistor.