[Amps] Amplifier Tuning Device

Jim Barber audioguy at q.com
Mon Sep 10 15:27:48 EDT 2012


On 9/10/2012 12:26 PM, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
> Quoting "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>:
>> REPLY:
>> One thing to be wary of with any pulse type tuning device is they do 
>> not load
>> down the power supply fully. When you go to a full carrier and the PS 
>> voltage
>> drops further, you run the risk of "flat-topping" the RF cycle and 
>> causing
>> distortion.
>
>
> Bill,
>
> You try to taylor the pulser or two-tone to match your individual voice
> duty cycle on ssb.
>
> Don W4DNR
"four four four four four four four..." ;-)

73,
Jim N7CXI



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