[Boatanchors] 813 grid to filament short / AM PEP

[Rob Atkinson]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Gary Schafer
<garyschafer at largeriver.net> wrote:

>
> In the days of reading only DC input power to transmitter one could run any
> amount of positive peak modulation and still be legal. PEP could have been
> many KW under the old rules.
>

Does anyone have a problem with this?  I certainly don't.
1 KW DC input to the final PA is way easier to understand and abide by
than PEP, which can't even be measured by most unless the transmission
mode is CW or RTTY.

>From a practical point of view, it doesn't matter, because there are
thousands of slopbucketeers out there running amps with one or two
8877s and 2.5 to 5 KW and nothing ever seems to happen to them.


Rob
K5UJ