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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
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