I have never done the trapezoid thing. I do the modulated waveform thing off the receiver IF. You often have to play with things to get the correct amplitude on TX without RX overload, but that allows me to look at others modulation on receive. The R390 does this real well.
On the homebrew receivers, I just run a small cap and resistor off the IF. I can clearly see under and overmod, positive peaks, closing off the carrier, it does not burn the crt, is much more interesting to watch, and is easy to do. The trapezoid would give more clues about transmitter distortion I suppose. Since most IF frequencies are around 455Khz, almost any scope will do well. No probes off HV points, or rf pickups to radiate into things in the shack... Brett N2DTS ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected]
