Back in the bad old days of analog cable TV, I would use a 19-inch TV across the room from the radio as a "bleed" monitor. Theory was that if my radio didn't disturb my TV it shouldn't mess with the neighbors' TVs.
Modulation is often a bigger influence than wattage. Modulating past 100 percent is what every base operator seems to want, but I wired the radio's internal modulation trimpot to a control with a knob on the radio's front panel. You can set this radio's modulation limiter from the front panel anywhere from 25 percent to wide open.
Got in the habit of setting this adjustment by watching the TV. I would turn it down just below where the picture stopped being affected.
If a neighbor complained, I would ask what channel he's watching. Selected that channel on our TV and invited him to some see that my picture isn't being disturbed when I transmit.
The wacky part of this was that the radio is a Saturn Turbo. Wouldn't show more than about 100 Watt peaks with the modulation limiter set to the "neighbor-friendly" modulation level. Tried it with my modified Dentron MLA amplifier. Would blow 2500 Watt peaks with the audio wide open. When I turned the modulation limiter down below the interference level it dropped to bout 1700.
The locals would argue about whether or not I was barefoot. The 'test' was to drop down one or up one channel to see if I would "splash" his receiver on modulation peaks. Turning down the modulation kept the radio narrowed down to just one channel, even at 1700 Watts peak.
I would never reveal whether or not I was barefoot. When asked if I was amplified I would answer "Who are you kidding?".
Not really an answer, but they would stop asking.
73
Modulation is often a bigger influence than wattage. Modulating past 100 percent is what every base operator seems to want, but I wired the radio's internal modulation trimpot to a control with a knob on the radio's front panel. You can set this radio's modulation limiter from the front panel anywhere from 25 percent to wide open.
Got in the habit of setting this adjustment by watching the TV. I would turn it down just below where the picture stopped being affected.
If a neighbor complained, I would ask what channel he's watching. Selected that channel on our TV and invited him to some see that my picture isn't being disturbed when I transmit.
The wacky part of this was that the radio is a Saturn Turbo. Wouldn't show more than about 100 Watt peaks with the modulation limiter set to the "neighbor-friendly" modulation level. Tried it with my modified Dentron MLA amplifier. Would blow 2500 Watt peaks with the audio wide open. When I turned the modulation limiter down below the interference level it dropped to bout 1700.
The locals would argue about whether or not I was barefoot. The 'test' was to drop down one or up one channel to see if I would "splash" his receiver on modulation peaks. Turning down the modulation kept the radio narrowed down to just one channel, even at 1700 Watts peak.
I would never reveal whether or not I was barefoot. When asked if I was amplified I would answer "Who are you kidding?".
Not really an answer, but they would stop asking.
73
