[RTTY] RTTY power levels
WI8W
wi8w at wi8w.org
Thu Aug 26 10:11:56 EDT 2004
In my station, for RTTY contesting (and for eveything else) I run a
Yaesu FT-920.
I checked the manual under Data operations and there is nothing in
there that says to limit the output power for 100% duty cycle modes.
In all the RTTY contests I have run in the past year abnd a half I
have always run the max this radio can put out which is about 95 watts
on RTTY. I can hear the fan running most of the time but I do not
experience any excessive heating at all.
I did notice when I had the covers off to install my INRAD filter
boards and filters that this radio is almost half heat sink. There is
quite a bit of metal connected to those final transistors.
I will finally add that most of my RTTY contesting is 90% CQing and
the rest S&P.
73
Thom WI8W
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