> Another way to look at it is that full carrier tuning for SSB gives
> you a wee bit more "headroom" than pulse tuning. I don't think it's
> good to try to squeeze the last tiny bit of power out, ESPECAILLY with
> SSB. That extra headroom will help prevent clipping and the resultant
> splatter.
I've never related tuning with headroom and I don't get it. Tuning has
always
acted like and an adjustable attenuator to an amplifier's transfer charismatics.
Tuning's impedance matching seems primarily to effect efficiency and
inversely
device dissipation.
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attacks democracy itself. -- William S. Paley,
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