Hello, Twist

Dave was referring to 'S' units at the other end of the circuit. One
'S' unit is *supposidly* equal to 6 dB. 6 dB is an increase in power
of four times.

As to peak and tune, I've seen both CBers and hams make the same
mistake if they had a meter that could be switched between rf output
and plate current (admittedly, I am going back a couple of years here
.... make that 3 decades LOL). In both cases, the poor guys simply had
the switch in the wrong position and tried to "peak" the unit. They
peaked the plate current. In the case of the CB, it was easy to
retune and the rig performed just fine; in the case of the ham, the
poor final looked like superman grabbed it with a red-hot hand and
squeezed. It really looked like fingerprints and a thumb mark on the
glass where it got so hot that the atmospheric pressure forced the
*very* hot glass inwards )


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim - top posting so as not to get more confused than I already am LOL


(Twistedhed) wrote in message ...
N3CVJ wrote:
Run, don't walk away from peak jobs.



A most certainly biased opinion. Just because YOU hacked up radios as an
"independant (sic) contractor" and couldn't peak them properly doesn't
mean the rest of the world should discount all the other techs.


They do

nothing more than remove your hard earned

money and put it into someone else's hands.


No wonder you couldn't make it as a tech. There are many reasons to
"peak" radios. In fact, what *you* term "peak" encompasses virtually any
mods or work to a radio, such as removing the cover and aligning or
tuning.




All that is usually involved is peaking the

power output for maximum, and removing or

reducing the affects of the modulation limiter.



Ahhh,,,well, there you have it, mistakenly believing that all techs
"usually" look at peaking a radio in the same incompetent manner as
yourself.


I won't go into the math here but in order to

see even 1 "S" (signal) unit increase on

another guy's meter, your radio would have to

put out 4 times as much power as it did stock.


You would be best served putting your voodoo radio bull**** to rest.
Assuming a peak and tune job is somehow related to increased "S" units
is imbecilic.


It is VERY difficult to get 16 watts of dead key
power from a 4 watt CB.



If one was getting a 16 watt dead key from a cb, it would be just
that,,a 16 watt cb and no longer a 4 watt cb.


It cannot be done by

alignment alone. By the time someone

"redesigns" the transmitter and replaces the

parts necessary to get up to 16 watts, you are

left with a radio that may very well be less

reliable, or may have a dirty or unstable

transmitter.



And you may be left with a radio that works quite well and exhibits none
of the unfavorable qualities (read: glass half empty) of which you
choose to focus.


If you truly want to get a boost in output

power,

you are better off with an amplifier. Yes, an

amplifier is illegal as heck, but so is a peak

job.



A tune isn't necessarily illegal, yet you have maintained "peak" and
"tune" are synonyms by your past posts regarding the opening of radios.