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Yeah, you don't want to do that. We have enough trouble these days with dirty signals on the air. Don't add to it. Get an inline processor, SP75 or equivalent.

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-Jim
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:58:25 -0500
"Joe WB9SBD via " <nss=[email protected]> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >? ?
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73

-Jim
NU0C