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Re: [Amps] Fw: Good amp to buy /amp notes

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Fw: Good amp to buy /amp notes
From: Ron Youvan <ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com>
Reply-to: ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:42:21 +0000
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> Another way to look at it is that full carrier tuning for SSB gives
> you a wee bit more "headroom" than pulse tuning. I don't think it's
> good to try to squeeze the last tiny bit of power out, ESPECAILLY with
> SSB. That extra headroom will help prevent clipping and the resultant
> splatter.

   I've never related tuning with headroom and I don't get it.  Tuning has 
always
acted like and an adjustable attenuator to an amplifier's transfer charismatics.

   Tuning's impedance matching seems primarily to effect efficiency and 
inversely
device dissipation.
-- 
    Ron  KA4INM - He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting 
industry
                  attacks democracy itself.        -- William S. Paley, 
chairman of CBS

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