...and here I am believing that it's the radio being opened to the bejeebus as the cause of splatter. Trash into an amp equals trash outta an amp. I've run DM transistor boxes in the house and never caused a single problem, of course I run 85% modulation. I have a 29 LTD Classic that Dave himself installed a variable and put the mod @ 85% and I don't care which amp I put on the table be it sweep tubes or pills I never splatter and I only broadcast on the channel I'm on.
It's those "golden screwdrivers" who open a 29 and spread the coil so it looks like a straight line and defeat limiters etc and make the radio a splatter machine and that example can also be used for other radios, Grants, 148's, 2000's, etc., etc., that in the end have folks blaming the overdriven linear as the prime culpret for all kinds of nuisances.
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