Another twist in measurement of peak output power is how you defining peak duration. Test gear varies in short a peak it can respond to.
We can split this hair pretty fine... but does it really matter? Do FCC inspectors of amateur stations even exist any longer? It has been a loooonng time since I ran into one in professional circles, never in the amateur realm... Twenty years ago I was involved in training Commission inspectors for several services, and the most complicated test gear they had for measuring power was a Bird 43 or equivalent. Maybe now they've got a peak-reading Bird (since lots of commercial stuff is multiple-carrier on one transmission line these days). But quite often these guys were quite happy to use the existing metering in the station and just wrote down the reading. I'd think it more likely today they'd sit in the car and make field-strength measurements of your signal at a given distance - a pretty rough gauge of transmitter power in amateur stations. Good luck to you if you have an extra-efficient antenna... Steve WD8DAS ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
