[Amps] Pulse tuning

[Roger]

On 9/22/2010 11:08 PM, Bill, W6WRT wrote:
> 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.

I'll swear I've met guys who could cause a steady carrier to splatter. <:-))

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Bill, W6WRT
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