Gordon
Your reasoning makes perfect sense. But I think you can measure at the actual harmonic frequencies which is where the issue would be . Your IC-718 can tune the third, fifth and 7th harmonics of 80 meters. So you can know exactly (within the limits of the S meter calibration and linearity) what the residual level is at the harmonic frequencies themselves. You have checked your S-meter and you know what represents 45-50 dB below S9+30 (normally one S unit = 6 dB but in real life S meters rarely replicate that). So just tune the harmonics directly and measure them. Or am I missing something?
WA8TOD
