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May 28th 06, 06:03 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors

Gary Schafer wrote:
On 26 May 2006 03:09:34 -0700, wrote:

First, power you read on RF power meters is RMS power. Peak envelope
power is the peak value of short term RMS power, average power is the
short term average of RMS power. This is why for CW PEP and average
power is the same, while for SSB and AM it is not.

If you sustitute the word AVARAGE in place of RMS this will be
correct. There is no such thing as RMS power. :)

Better tell these people that....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square

and this person...

http://www.eznec.com/Amateur/RMS_Power.pdf

73 Tom