[Boatanchors] 813 grid to filament short

[Ron Youvan]

  On 10/01/2015 12:51 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:

> Glen you can go on to your heart's content about "present FCC
> regulations" but it doesn't mean doo doo to any real AM operator who
> isn't all wrapped up in slopbucketese.  I expect you to immediately
> notify FCC and come clean if your carrier is 375.01 watts or more.  By
> the way, I don't want you exceeding the speed limit on our public
> roads either.

   We can legally transmit a 500 or 800 watt carrier as long as we don't
amplitude modulate the carrier past 1,500 Watts ERP, no one says we
must modulate the carrier fully.  So a 400 Watt carrier is not a
problem unless we modulate (that we have) past 1.5 kW.
I have no experience with any of the modern PEP power meters, but their
rated accuracy seems to be helpful to our cause.

> I'm now hearing ops say things like "I run X watts peaking at such and
> such PEP."  How sad.
> I wonder why I never hear of power limits for AM broadcast stations
> expressed in PEP.

   AM stations are rated as "mV per meter" (at some distance) because of
interference they cause to other other stations on the same frequency.
-- 
   Ron  KA4INM - Youvan's corollary:
                 Every action results in unwanted side effects.