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[AMPS] amp tuning, SWR tolerance, and processing vs grid current

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Subject: [AMPS] amp tuning, SWR tolerance, and processing vs grid current
From: km1h@juno.com (km1h@juno.com)
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 09:10:37 EST
On Thu, 06 Mar 1997 21:11:35 EST n4kg@juno.com (T. A. Russell) writes:
>Re:  Amplifier Tuning
>
>Most contesters use presets (lines on a piece of paper behind the 
>tuning knobs) and don't bother to tweek the last watt out of their 
>amplifiers when they change bands or move around within a band.
>
>As long as nothing melts and nothing arcs (and grid drive is not 
>exceeded), there is no harm done.
>
>One of my pet peeves is to listen to someone go through a long 
>full carrier tune-up (especially on top of a DX station frequency 
>right after being spotted on packet)!   Amplifier tuning into your
>same antennas should be the same time after time after time.
>With presets, little or no tweeking should be necessary.
>
>de Tom - N4KG

Boy, did you hit a nail with that last paragraph Tom!  I am waiting for
the day that signal identification technology becomes affordable. The DX
Cluster post would be something like this:

DX   1826.5    P29VXX      W....  tuning on top  

73....Carl  KM1H

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