Hi Howard,

I would suspect that the meter you are using is not a peak reading meter and
that way you won't get a good reading on voice at all.  The best you can
hope to achieve would be .707 of true DC power because of the RMS values
associated with AC.  For a better indication put a constant tone or whistle
into the mic and read the power.  I can whistle my 480 to 100 to 109 watts
depending on band.  What I do is put on a set of head phones, turn on the
transmit monitor and then do some voice tests holding a syllable and
adjusting the mic gain after each reading.  When I reach a point where I
can't seem to get much more out of it no matter how much I advance the gain,
that's where I leave it.

Good luck and very 73.

Kevin :)
Amateur Radio:  K7RX
Navy Marine Corps MARS:  NNN0SHS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 17:34
Subject: knowing to much


>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