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[Amps] Why hasn't solid state replaced tubes?

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Subject: [Amps] Why hasn't solid state replaced tubes?
From: 2 at vc.net (rlm)
Date: Tue Mar 4 21:26:45 2003

>> 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?
>
>Why would it have audible distortion? 

**  Because some low freq speech IM products fall within the filter 
passband and their level is such that they are audible.  This is quite 
rare, but I have heard several,

>The garbage being measured is already
>20-30dB down, is outside the passband of the receiver fileters, ...

-  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734, AG6K, 
www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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