[Amps] Centurion cooling improvement ideas for AM service

Paul Christensen w9ac at arrl.net
Thu Aug 26 18:15:38 EDT 2004


> 6 kHz on SSB would be greater audio bandwidth than used for standard
> AM broadcast (5kHz). Which was adopted to accommodate music broadcast.

Actually, 5 kHz of audio equates to an AM bandwith of 10 kHz.  Each AM
sideband contains the same 5 kHz of information.

> or more channels or for secure transmissions. Are we going to transmit
> stereo? If so it seems to be a waste of bandwidth.

If the only objective is to communicate using the least amount of necessary
bandwidth, then we should limit ourselves to only CW, PSK31, and other very
narrow bandwidth modes.  Why waste more bandwidth using SSB than can be
transmitted in CW or PSK31?  Clearly, there's more to operating than
minimizing bandwidth and power.

-Paul



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