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How about the Icom IC-PW1 solid state amplifier? Output power: CW, RTTY: 1 kW at 180 - 264 V AC; 500 W at 90 - 132 V AC input SSB 1 kW PEP at 180 - 264 V AC; 500 W PEP at 90 - 132 V AC input Driving
Is the IMD normally measured by using a two-tone test? If so, does the particular frequency of the tones (within a normal audio 3KHz bandwidth) change the IMD, i.e. which two tones would give the wo
This thread has got me interested. What should be the minimum acceptable IMD spec for a transceiver? An amplifier, I think, will either pass through the transceiver's IMD or make it worse. I quickly
Hi Ian, Does a transmitter with poor 3rd order IMD therefore have any noticeable distortion in the voice quality due to the speech intermod products within the audio bandwidth? If the system/amplifie
Looking at the ARRL graphs of transceiver IMD testing, and comparing different rigs by their 3rd order products, if one rig has poor 3rd IMD results it does not necessarily follow (according to the
The ARRL IMD testing graphs show that the IMD products are not exact mirror images as they appear on either side of the center frequency and may vary by 5 DB or so, that's probably OK if the rig is
design for a fairly clean 600 watt HF amplifier based on 4 MRF150 transistors. combiner that, with some modification, should be able to handle 1.5 KW. Isn't that the same information that the R. F.
Whenever a situation occurs that causes the IMD products, above and below a center frequency, to be uncorrelated. Please explain then, why the ARRL testing of IMD in apparently healthy transmitters
What claim? I was looking at the IMD graphs that the ARRL publishes whenever it tests a transmitter, and noticed that the IMD products, shown on those graphs, were not symmetrically a mirror image a