[TenTec] ten tecs have 100 watts out on carrier??

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 15:53 -0400, john ferro wrote:
> yes that is what i mean - i tune my jap rigs on am where the carrier is only 40 or 50 watts. on ten tecs i guess I'm tuning on up on CW which is 100 watts. i am still a bit confused on this though - why is CW mode 100 watts and am only 50? i thought am and cw was the same - a carrier? i never used cw mode so excuse my ignorance. i guess my next question is can ten tecs be tuned up on am and can jap rigs be tuned up on cw before switching over to SSB.
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OK, now it comes out. I was wondering if that was the operator problem.
Fundamentally a 100 watt CW or SSB rig can only run 100 watts PEAK and
for AM the carrier power is 1/4 the peak so the AM carrier HAS to be set
for 25 watts, else there will be peak clipping distortion (and SPLATTER
all over the band). The Tentecs mostly don't have AM so don't do that
"carrier" reduction. The rice boxes that do AM MUST cut the unmodulated
carrier to 1/4 the available peak power. There is NO WAY around that.
None what so ever.

73, Jerry, K0CQ