ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:27:20 -0400, W4TV wrote:
> By definition PEP can't be 100% duty cycle.
REPLY:
Of course it can. You are confusing duty cycle with average power output.
A two tone test signal with a certain PEP broadcast continuously is 100% duty
cycle. The same two tone broadcast in an equal on/off manner would be 50% duty
cycle. The PEP is the same but the duty cycle is different.
>From Google definitions: "The cycle of operation of a machine or other device
that operates intermittently rather than continuously".
For example if you transmit SSB voice continuously you are doing SSB at 100%
duty cycle. If you transmit SSB voice for ten seconds, listen for ten seconds
and then repeat over and over, you are doing SSB at 50% duty cycle.
73, Bill W6WRT
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