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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:14:26 GMT
- Subject: Re: Mr. Pierce responds to Re: Class C amplifiers, says Mr. Pierce.
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- > The term "Class C" always suggests to me a circuit in which the
- > device conduction angle is significantly less than 180 degrees. I
- > automatically think of CW transmitters when I hear the term. Such
- > an amplifier is wholly unsuited to linear operation, whether at
- > audio frequencies, or at RF, as in an AM transmitter output stage.
- >
- > -Henry
- >
-
- Henry, you're going to confuse a lot of people with that last bit - most
- commercial AM transmitters DO use a class C output stage. The trick is
- that the modulation is done at the output - the output stage is NOT amplifying
- an already-modulated signal, and so amp linearity is unimportant. (SSB
- transmitters are another story altogether, even though SSB is a "subset"
- of AM.)
-
-
- Bob Myers KC0EW Hewlett-Packard Co. |Opinions expressed here are not
- User Interface Tech. Div.|those of my employer or any other
- myers@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, Colorado |sentient life-form on this planet.
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