Nick, No need to guess, that certainly is true - a single audio tone transmitted without a carrier present will produce a single signal at a frequency of the carrier + or - the tone pitch (depends on the sideband). The amplitude will of course depend on how strong the audio signal is, but it could develop as much as the CW signal before driving the signal into a non-linear region (that non-linear maximum will depend on the transmitter design - I do not believe that is any need for concern on the K2)
73, Don W3FPR > -----Original Message----- > > Don Wilhelm wrote: > > This can be observed easily on an oscilloscope - first observe the > > amplitude of your power setting in CW, and then switch to SSB. If > > the voice peaks come up to the same amplitude as you observed for the > > CW signal, you are achieving that same level of PEP (peak envelope > > power). The average power will be considerably less than the PEP > > power for SSB. > > I'm guessing, if you can produce a single nice clean sine wave on an > audio frequency signal generator, sending a clean sine in SSB ought to > be approximately equivalent to sending a single carrier in CW? > > -- > "Nosey" Nick Waterman, G7RZQ, K2 #5209. > use Std::Disclaimer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You never find the what you want, until you replace it. > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
