"And now for something completely different..."

[Alberto di Bene]

On 2/15/2010 11:44 PM, Mike O'Dell wrote:

> why didn't they AM the signal when it was "small"
> and easy to do and then just use a linear final
> so all the muscle went into the signal instead
> of heating the modulation transformer?
>
> what am I missing here??

Because a linear power amplifier is much less efficient of a class C PA....
And you can plate-modulate a non-linear class C amplifier....

73  Alberto  I2PHD