[Amps] Pulse tuning

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:07:10 -0500, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Sure you can "splatter" with CW--it is called key clicks.  Any way you
>instantaneously break off or make a carrier so it has an instantaneous rise
>you will have a burst of wide frequency energy.  The fundamental physics is
>the same whether it is spark, a lightning strike, clipping the carrier with
>> 100% negative going modulation in AM, or instant rise in a data mode--a
>burst of electron transfer in a conducting medium that has resistance will
>produce this.

REPLY:

Key clicks are generated by a keying waveform that has sharp "corners".
I suppose it is possible to overdrive an amp to the extent that properly
rounded corners are squared off. I've never done that but theoretically
it is possible. 

Bill, W6WRT