>
>Hi All,
>
>Does anyone have any idea why tetrode amps like the one just
>reviewed in QST seem to have such poor IMD performance?
>
>Is it the tube, the circuitry, or a testing error? I mean, -29dB ala
>ARRL is really -23dB using commercial standards. That's pretty
>nasty.
>
// Many solid-state output radios have close to -30db IMD.
>I'd hate like hell to have a bunch of them near me, or was
>something else going on??
// Rumour has it that in Hell nearly everyone uses a G2DAF-type
amplifier.
>
cheers, Tom
- R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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