Hmmm... lower power = cleaner signal ... Hmmm....
Maybe you overstate your case? A 100 watt rig should be clean through
all 100 watts. One should not have to lower power and run an amp to
have a clean signal. Otherwise, the mfr should call it an 80 watt rig,
with 20 watts overhead on the dial above the clipping point, or
something to that effect.
----------------- K8JHR --------------------
On 7/25/2014 4:34 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
IMD is significantly
reduced by operating the radio from higher DC voltage (13.8V rather than
12V), and at the reduced power levels required to drive most power amps
BTW -- early K3s shipped with firmware allowing them to be cranked to
120W out, but IMD got pretty bad, and firmware was subsequently modified
to limit output power to 110W.
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