Yo! Troy:
Monday October 21 1996 20:32, Troy H. Cheek wrote to Bill Cheek:
 TC>>> This, I've been afraid to try.  Oh, I've keyed up the mike
 TC>> accidentally a time or two, but have never actually transmitted.
 BC>> Keying the mic is......"transmitting".  Very much so.   :-)
 TC> But the difference in power between deadkeying and yelling into your
 TC> amplified mic?  Looks like a lot when watching the meter while other
 TC> people are talking.
CB meters are ver sensitive to slight flucuations for one, but two, whistling 
doesn't do what you think it does.  Rather than increasing the carrier, it 
puts power into the sidebands.  For a 4-watt carrier, 100% modulation puts 
4-watts into the lower sideband and 4-watts into the upper sideband for 12-w 
PEP.
 BC>> Otherwise, the input transformer and probably the preamplifier
 BC>> transistor are likely to blow.
 TC> Which is my fear, I guess.  An otherwise perfectly good piece of 
equipment
 TC> that happens to be deaf.
Well, like I said in another message, most front ends are protected against 
overload nowadays.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team | Microsoft MVP
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