[AMRadio] Was what is this???? now why i like am

[Geoff Edmonson]

  On 12/01/2010 06:57 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> Jay, maybe because I got up 15 minutes ago but I don't know what you
> mean.  I have a FT1000MP and there is a "power" pot on the front panel
> which I think somehow adjusts PA collector current and as far as I
> know, that's it.  What's the carrier control?  Maybe a control found
> on older JA rigs with tube PAs?

Nah.. Some rigs, like my Kenwood TS-450SAT have both a carrier level 
control and a power level control.

I leave the power level control cranked wide open.  I adjust the carrier 
level to kick on the amplifier (4x 2SC2879) and the adjust the output of 
the amp (with the carrier control) to 1/4 of the amp's output.  Or, 
around 150w.  Signal reports from the mobile range from Very good to 
Excellent.  Looking forward to possibly easing the frequency down to 
3.705 ~ 3.725 a little later this winter and seeing if I could make it 
to the East Coast, while mobile.

73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR (/m)
(mobile, because i'm 'cliff dwelling' [apartment] living in Houston, TX)