Howard,

Look at the specs on your 480, and you'll know.  I suspect that the "100
watts" you hear for power level refers to peak power, which means that on
SSB you'll get considerably less if you connect a meter to the radio's
output.  Said meter will probably read something much closer to an average
power reading, although I can't say that for sure.  As for the 25 watts on
AM, I think that's what the radio is supposed to deliver.

Steve

On Thursday 7/21/05 20:34 Howard Kaufman wrote:
>A friend of mine came over, and we decided to read the power output
>levels on my ts480.
>in fsk, we got 90 watts out.  On A.M. we got 25 watts out.
>On ssb reading peaks we got 55 watts out.  Average power out was 40 watts.
>What is a 100 watt radio supposed to give you