[Amps] "10 Meter Ban" to be lifted ...

[Jim Brown]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:57:59 -0500, Gary Schafer wrote:

>I believe that Bell Labs many years ago published that the ratio of average
>to peak speech power was 15 or 16 db.

That is for UNPROCESSED speech (that is, no compression, peak limiting, AGC, 
or peak clipping, and little or no EQ). Dynamics processing and EQ can 
easily reduce that ratio to 3-6 dB. Stick a modulation monitor on almost any 
US AM or FM broadcast station and you'll rarely see it get below 90% 
modulation! Aggressively processed ham audio can also get there. 

73,

Jim Brown K9YC