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Re: SSB Power

Posted by Nick Waterman on Feb 11, 2006; 10:12am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/SSB-Power-tp386507p386510.html

Don Wilhelm wrote:
> This can be observed easily on an oscilloscope - first observe the
> amplitude of your power setting in CW, and then switch to SSB.  If
> the voice peaks come up to the same amplitude as you observed for the
> CW signal, you are achieving that same level of PEP (peak envelope
> power).  The average power will be considerably less than the PEP
> power for SSB.

I'm guessing, if you can produce a single nice clean sine wave on an
audio frequency signal generator, sending a clean sine in SSB ought to
be approximately equivalent to sending a single carrier in CW?

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