Lou,

we can't be sure if the radio is being driven hard enough to produce the
peak readings you suggest.  Without that piece of information, the SSB
readings are somewhat meaningless as an indication of how much power the
radio is capable of generating.
\
Steve

On Thursday 7/21/05 20:58 Louis Kim Kline wrote:
>More than 55 watts peak on SSB I would say.  That's disappointing.
>
>Actually, the 40 watts average doesn't surprise me becausethere are lots of
>quiet time slices in a moment of SSB audio, but I would have expected peaks
>much closer to the rated output.
>
>73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>P.S.  What do you see if you inject a steady tone on SSB?
>
>
>
>At 07:34 PM 7/21/2005 -0500, you 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
>
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