[Elecraft] KPA1500 Linearity

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Sun Jun 10 14:22:03 EDT 2018


On 6/9/2018 2:21 PM, K9MA wrote:
> While I'm primarily a CW operator, I'd be very reluctant to use the 
> amplifier on SSB.

CW is 100% Amplitude Modulation of a carrier by a rectangular wave, so 
the transitions are rich in harmonics that are heard as clicks, and they 
WILL excite IM in a non-linear path.

73, Jim K9YC



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