Think the FCC will buy it? What if they come around and say they are sure you had a few peaks over 1600 watts?
I am sure they are just waiting down the street from my house, measuring my pep.... Hope they don't measure the FM broadcast transmitter I have, so I can listen while doing stuff around the house and yard with a walkman, its over a watt I think... Brett > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W5OMR/Geoff > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:26 PM > To: Discussion of AM Radio > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] watt meter > > Brett gazdzinski wrote: > > > > >What is everyone doing for a watt meter? > > > > I use a scope, plate current and plate voltage meters. > > Final efficiency is typically 75% - so, 1500v @ 200mA = 300w > DC input is > close to 225w carrier output. > > If you don't use a tuner, and know that your antenna is > resonant at the > frequency you want to operate, then you don't need a bridge. > > For PEP? Use a scope. Allow your natural asymetrical voice > peaks to > rise where they need to, to faithfully reproduce your voice, without > distortion or cross-over modulation at the low frequencies, > and let 'er rip. > > -- > 73 = Best Regards, > -Geoff/W5OMR > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb >
