[Boatanchors] 813 grid to filament short

[Rob Atkinson]

Let me know when the FCC shows up at your shack and accurately
measures your Pee Eee Peee.

You can't even measure it.   You just think you can.  Most hams can't
even measure carrier with 100% accuracy.

The audio peaks are so fleeting in duration they have no practical
meaning.   If an operator wants to obsess about PEP he can knock
himself out, but in conversation about AM power, it is meaningless.

73

Rob
K5UJ



On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:50 AM, W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> wrote:
>> I wish AM operators would quit expressing power in therms of PEP, a slopbucket term that came about in the 1960s when manufacturers of cheap crappy lightweight sweep tube gear etc. designed for slopbucket, were seeking to bamboozle appliance operators into thinking they had QRO gear ("Up to 2 KW PEP Input!!")  Now, the modern day plastic radio operator pisses and moans about how _heavy_ his dinky table top leenyar is.
>
>>The halfway measurable signal component is the carrier--carrier power tells AM operators all they need to know.
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> I am far from knowledgable on this subject, but I seem to recall that the FCC's power limits may be specified in PEP (maybe that is only for SSB?) In which case, I would want to know my PEP. Not to know how big my signal was or wasn't, but to compare my emission limits to the regulations. Just my 2c (now worth 1c due to inflation)
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> 73