In a message dated 10/16/2006 12:47:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
sm2ekm@telia.com writes:
peak envelope power (of a radio transmitter): The average power supplied
to the antenna transmission line by a transmitter during one radio
frequency cycle at the crest of the modulation envelope taken under
normal operating conditions
This is a direct quote from the ARRL handbook which is always my source of
information. Yes, during one cycle there can be many "spikes" but there is
also many lower values too. Since the term is "envelope", I think they want
us
to consider the entire crest of the cycle as opposed to just any one spike.
Therefore that is how I think the 2 to 1 ration was formed. Granted an SSB
waveform is complex but maybe we are getting hung up on semantics as SK2EKM
suggests. Lou
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