Gary Schafer wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
>> Behalf Of Tom W8JI
>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:27 PM
>> To: 'AMPS'
>> Subject: Re: [Amps] "10 Meter Ban" to be lifted ...
>>
>> > You could actually run much higher peak envelope output
>> > power under the old
>> > rules than you can today. With the new rules we lost
>> > ground on the power we
>> > are allowed to run. Few realized what really happened as
>> > few understood the
>> > relationship between peak envelope power and average as
>> > read on the meter.
>>
>> How do you figure that?
>
>There was no limit on the peak envelope power we were allowed to run; only a
>limit on the average power as read on the plate meters.
>
>Peak envelope power can range from 5 to 10 times or greater than the average
>power we see on the plate meter with voice.
Wasn't there also an FCC rule that the time constant of the meter should
not be greater than 0.25 seconds? How an FCC field engineer could have
checked that was left to the reader's imagination.
--
73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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