[AMRadio] what is this????

[Donald Chester]

> Maybe these guys are rating their antennas like the Hi Fi 
> manufacturers use to use?(and still may)?where an amp with two 12AX7's 
> in the output was capable of 250 W. Integrated Dynamic Time Averaged 
> Music Power. OK I made that up, but you all remember the? ridiculous 
> phantom power rating systems that were thrown about for a while to 
> snare the uneducated.

Yeah, like that bogus 1500 watts of phantom power we are supposed to get 
from a 375-watt carrier plus 187.5 watts of sideband power on voice 
peaks, or 93.75 watts of peak power in in each sideband.

Don k4kyv