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I am sure they "Tuned" your radio. From the factory box it is was probably keying 3.8 watts and swinging to 6 or 7 watts.
Typically a Factory Service manual alignment will have the technician set the dead key output to 3.8 watts (under the 4 watt FCC maximum) and set the modulation to 95% so as to keep it FCC legal.
Bodacious claims of exorbitant output power and "Swing Watts" have been separating people from their cash for many years. Some power can be gained by tuning but at the expense of a clean sounding radio. There is a limit.
Despite this advice, there are some people that will "buy into this" so as to be the "King of the Channel". The fact is (as was posted earlier) a few extra watts will not and can not be noticed by the receiving station. A bump in the audio output may get your signal understood a little better by the receiving station, but there is a limit before your audio becomes garbled and unintelligible by the receiving station and causes interference to adjacent channels.

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David

<blockquote data-quote="Dmans" data-source="post: 719714" data-attributes="member: 49046">I am sure they &quot;Tuned&quot; your radio. From the factory box it is was probably keying 3.8 watts and swinging to 6 or 7 watts.Typically a Factory Service manual alignment will have the technician set the dead key output to 3.8 watts (under the 4 watt FCC maximum) and set the modulation to 95% so as to keep it FCC legal.Bodacious claims of exorbitant output power and &quot;Swing Watts&quot; have been separating people from their cash for many years. Some power can be gained by tuning but at the expense of a clean sounding radio. There is a limit.Despite this advice, there are some people that will &quot;buy into this&quot; so as to be the &quot;King of the Channel&quot;. The fact is (as was posted earlier) a few extra watts will not and can not be noticed by the receiving station. A bump in the audio output may get your signal understood a little better by the receiving station, but there is a limit before your audio becomes garbled and unintelligible by the receiving station and causes interference to adjacent channels.73David</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dmans, post: 719714, member: 49046"] I am sure they "Tuned" your radio. From the factory box it is was probably keying 3.8 watts and swinging to 6 or 7 watts. Typically a Factory Service manual alignment will have the technician set the dead key output to 3.8 watts (under the 4 watt FCC maximum) and set the modulation to 95% so as to keep it FCC legal. Bodacious claims of exorbitant output power and "Swing Watts" have been separating people from their cash for many years. Some power can be gained by tuning but at the expense of a clean sounding radio. There is a limit. Despite this advice, there are some people that will "buy into this" so as to be the "King of the Channel". The fact is (as was posted earlier) a few extra watts will not and can not be noticed by the receiving station. A bump in the audio output may get your signal understood a little better by the receiving station, but there is a limit before your audio becomes garbled and unintelligible by the receiving station and causes interference to adjacent channels. 73 David [/QUOTE]

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