"CD" wrote in message
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Thank you, John and Wes! I also thought that they were the same, but I
wasn't too sure.


In a way they are the same. Exciters are usually thought of as a low power
stage that drives a larger amplifier. The exciter plus the amplifier stages
are what I would call a tansmitter. Many of the vhf/uhf comercial
transceivers had a low power (around 100 to 300 milliwatts) exciter to
drive the amplifier section that would take it to 25 to 150 watts out.