And 120W over 100W gives you a whopping 0.8dB increase in power.
Will anyone notice?
I see the "easy to measure" effect in many fields. Anything
that's easy to measure becomes the only thing to optimize. In
program language compilers,the speed of the optimized program is
easy to measure so it is more important than robustness, which
is hard to measure. In cars, horsepower is easy to measure, so
it becomes more important than handling. In cameras, its pixels
over lens quality. In radios, it's power over IMD. etc.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 10/29/15 at 7:41 AM, [email protected] (Don Wilhelm) wrote:
So the thing to do is to run the power supply voltage up to
near 15 volts (but not above), and do not operate with "all
knobs to the right".
Many hams seen to want to squeeze all the power output that
they can from a transceiver, so you will put a cleaner signal
on the air if you set the power to 100 watts rather than trying
to squeeze that last 20 extra watts out of an amplifier.
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