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Re: [Amps] drive power

To: "Steve Flood" <flood@ixi.net>, <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] drive power
From: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:52:42 -0400
List-post: <mailto:amps@contesting.com>
> I understand that my 100-w tranceiver should be run at 
> maximum output to the amp input.  Apparently, this 
> requires a grounded-grid setup to accomodate the 
> relatively high drive level.   Yet there seems to be many 
> amps that are grid-driven that require very small amounts 
> of drive power.  Are these amps not designed to be used 
> modern transceivers?  Are they commonly driven by homebrew 
> low-power exciters?

If an amp requires very low drive and is driven by a 100 
watt exciter, it is a very poor system.

Sometimes people think it improves distortion, but it often 
does just the opposite.

73 Tom 


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