Thanks Jim,
But I remember someone looking at the signal on a Heathkit station
monitor and while it was a fat Christmas tree it was far from a
fully filled as you say green bar.
I wonder if anyone can do some scope image grabs of shorted vs
open,
Joe WB9SBD
On 4/25/2024 7:08 AM, Jim VE7RF wrote:
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It was done all the time back then. Just a spst toggle to short
out the? ALC jack.? ?Then it looked like a solid green bar on
the scope, instead of the typ 'xmas tree' pattern.?
Funny thing was, nobody bitched abt imd / splatter...go
figure.?
Some folks in W6 land told me they pulled out one of the tubes,
then cut off one of the pins, to do the same thing.?
Essentially, you turned it into an rf clipper, albeit, with no
filter to clean up out of band imd products. A real RF clipper
would have the 2nd filter. ( like the magnum 6 /? DX engineering
RF clippers).?
The Vomax was just a split band audio clipper, with a filter
for each of the 3 x bands.? Then the filtered ( and clipped) 3 x
bands were? re-combined.??
