[Amps] pulse tuning

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:49:18 -0800, "Jim Thomson" <Jim.thom at telus.net>
wrote:

> #  say what?    On ssb, the duty cycle at most is only 30-50%.##  why  would you want to suck the B+  way down as low as it will go  with a cxr ?

REPLY:

Because tuning with a full carrier and then operating with a normal
SSB  duty cycle gives you a wee bit of headroom to avoid clipping and
splatter. I don't believe in tying to squeeze the last watt out,
ESPECIALLY on SSB. 

73, Bill W6WRT